The legend of Yājñavalkya’s receiving the Veda from the Sun-God - Verse 201

Yājñavalkya said:: They possess truthfulness, virtue, vow of celibacy and learning. The passing away of the seven sages, of Manu, of the Devas, and of the Pitṛs, of the past and future (has been mentioned) from the beginning. There is no break in the line of their progeny till the termination of the Manvantara.