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Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems

by Henry Hart Milman

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Notes to the Deluge

157 See the very valuable papers of this gentleman in the Bombay Transactions.

158 The editor remarks, that the name Manuja, Man-born, as the appellative of the human race, is derived from Manu, as likewise Mánawas, masc. Man—Mánawi, fem. Woman: from thence the Gothic Mann, which we have preserved. Manu is thus the representative of Man.

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