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:
श्री-सदाशिव उवाच <इ>शक्तिः सम्योगिनी कामा वामा शक्तिर् वियोगिनी
ह्लादिनी कीर्तिदा-पुत्री चैवं राधा त्रयं व्रजेśrī-sadāśiva uvāca śaktiḥ samyoginī kāmā vāmā śaktir viyoginī
hlādinī kīrtidā-putrī caivaṃ rādhā trayaṃ vraje
Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:
śrī-sadāśiva uvāca—Lord Sadāśiva said; śaktiḥ samyoginī—the potency of meeting; kāmā—amorous pastimes; vāmā—contrariness; śaktir—potency; viyoginī—separation; hlādinī—pleasure; kīrtidā- putrī—the daughter of Kīrtidā; ca—also; evaṃ—thus; rādhā—Śrī Rādhā; trayaṃ—three; vraje—in Vraja.
English translation of verse:
Lord Sadāśiva said: The Samyoginī potency arranges the amorous pastimes of the divine couple, and the Viyoginī potency arranges that the divine couple be separated. The Hlādinī potency is the Lord's pleasure potency. In Vraja Śrī Rādhā is the manifestation of these three potencies.