Sanskrit
महर्षयः सप्त पूर्वे चत्वारो मनवस्तथा । मद्भावा मानसा जाता येषां लोक इमाः प्रजाः ॥ ६ ॥
maharṣayaḥ sapta pūrve catvāro manavas tathā madbhāvā mānasā jātā yeṣāṃ loka imāḥ prajāḥ
Translation
The seven great Rishis, the ancient Four, and also the Manus, were born of My nature, and mind; of them this race was generated.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
Shifts from qualities to cosmogony. The seven great Rishis, the four Kumaras (“the ancient Four”), and the Manus are said to be mind-born from Krishna, and the human race descends from them — a genealogical claim, not just an emanation of qualities: entire lineages, including humanity’s own progenitors, trace back to him as their proximate mental origin.