sā́varṇi m. N. of a Ṛishi RV

• metron, of the eighth Manu (son of the Śun by Su-varṇā, q.v., and therefore younger brother of the seventh Manu or Vaivasvata

• the succeeding Manus to the twelfth, or accord. to other authorities to the fourteenth inclusive, are all called Sāvarṇ

• cf. dakṣa-, brahma-, dharma-s○) Hariv. MārkP