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:
एकदा यमुना-तीरे समासीनं जगद्-गुरुम्
नारदः प्रणिपत्याह देव-देवं सदाशिवम्ekadā yamunā-tīre samāsīnaṃ jagad-gurum
nāradaḥ praṇipatyāha deva-devaṃ sadāśivam
Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:
ekadā—one day; yamunā-tīre—on the Yamunā's shore; samāsīnam—sitting; jagad-gurum—the master of the universe; nāradaḥ—Nārada; praṇipatya—bowing down; āha—said; deva-devam—to the master of the demigods; sadāśivam—Lord Sadāśiva.
English translation of verse:
One day, bowing before Lord Lord Sadāśiva, the master of both the demigods and the universe, who sat by the Yamunā's shore, Śrī Nārada said: