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 ...

Sanskrit text and Unicode transliteration:

तत्रापि मातृ-वृन्दैश् च तत्-पुत्रैश् च बलैः सह
सम्भुङ्क्ते विविधान्नानि चर्व्य-चूष्यादिकानि च

tatrāpi mātṛ-vṛndaiś ca tat-putraiś ca balaiḥ saha
sambhuṅkte vividhānnāni carvya-cūṣyādikāni ca

Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:

tatra—there; api—also; mātṛ-vṛndaiś—by the many mothers; ca—and; tat-putraiś—by their children; ca—and; balaiḥ—Lord Balarāma; saha—with; sambhuṅkte—ate; vividhānnāni—many kinds of foods; carvya-cūṣyādikāni—to be chewed, sucked, and consumed in other ways; ca—also.

English translation of verse:

Then, accompanied by Lord Balarāma, the gopa boys, and the boys' mothers, Lord Kṛṣṇa ate a feast of many different kinds of foods, foods to be chewed, licked, or consumed in other ways.

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