# Cc. Ādi 5.113 ## Text > yuga-manvantare dhari' nānā avatāra > dharma saṁsthāpana kare, adharma saṁhāra ## Synonyms *yuga*-*manu*-*antare*—in the ages and millenniums of Manu; *dhari'*—accepting; *nānā*—various; *avatāra*—incarnations; *dharma* *saṁsthāpana* *kare*—establishes the principles of religion; *adharma* *saṁhāra*—vanquishing irreligious principles. ## Translation **In the ages and millenniums of Manu, He appears as different incarnations to establish the principles of real religion and vanquish the principles of irreligion.** ## Purport Lord Viṣṇu, who lies in the ocean of milk, incarnates Himself in various forms to maintain the laws of the cosmos and annihilate the causes of disturbance. Such incarnations are visible in every *manv-antara* (i.e., in the course of the reign of each Manu, who lives for 71 x 4,320,000 years). Fourteen such Manus take their birth and die, to yield a place for the next, during one day of Brahmā.