# SB 3.11.24 > स्वं स्वं कालं मनुर्भुङ्क्ते साधिकां ह्येकसप्तति ॥२४॥ ## Text > svaṁ svaṁ kālaṁ manur bhuṅkte > sādhikāṁ hy eka-saptatim ## Synonyms *svam*—own; *svam*—accordingly; *kālam*—duration of life; *manuḥ*—Manu; *bhuṅkte*—enjoys; *sa*-*adhikām*—a little more than; *hi*—certainly; *eka*-*saptatim*—seventy-one. ## Translation **Each and every Manu enjoys a life of a little more than seventy-one sets of four millenniums.** ## Purport The duration of life of a Manu comprises seventy-one sets of four millenniums, as described in the *Viṣṇu Purāṇa.* The duration of life of one Manu is about 852,000 years in the calculation of the demigods, or, in the calculation of human beings, 306,720,000 years.