Sanatkumara Samhita
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The is is the english translation of the Sanatkumara Samhita. Sanatkumara in Sanskrit means “eternal youth”. Sage Sanatkumara was one of the Four Kumaras, the four Manasputras (mind-born-sons) or spiritual sons of Brahma. Sanatkumara is also the author of the Sanatkumara Samhita, which is part of the Shiva Purana, and has 59 chapters. Alternative ...
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Sanskrit text and Unicode transliteration:
सूर्यं च पूजयेत् तत्र प्रार्थितस् तत्-सखी-जनैः
तदैव कल्पितैर् वेदैः परिहास्यावगर्भितैःsūryaṃ ca pūjayet tatra prārthitas tat-sakhī-janaiḥ
tadaiva kalpitair vedaiḥ parihāsyāvagarbhitaiḥ
Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:
sūryaṃ—the sun god; ca—and; pūjayet—worships; tatra—there; prārthitas—requested; tat-sakhī-janaiḥ—by His gopī friends; tadā—then; eva—indeed; kalpitair—created; vedaiḥ—by Vedas; parihāsya—joking; avagarbhitaiḥ—filled with outrageous errors.
English translation of verse:
Requested by the gopīs, the disguised Kṛṣṇa worships the sun-god. Lord Kṛṣṇa then recites a host of imaginary Vedic prayers, prayers made up on the spot and filled with a host of errors.