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:

लावण्य-सार-मुग्धाङ्गीं सर्वावयव-सुन्दरीम्
आनन्द-रस-सम्मग्नां प्रसन्नां नव-यौवनाम्

lāvaṇya-sāra-mugdhāṅgīṃ sarvāvayava-sundarīm
ānanda-rasa-sammagnāṃ prasannāṃ nava-yauvanām

Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:

lāvaṇya—of beauty; sārathe best; mugdha—charming; aṅgīm—limbs; sarvāvayava-sundarīm—beauty of all limbs; ānandabliss; rasain the nectar; sammagnām—plunged; prasannām—happy; nava-yauvanām—in new youth.

English translation of verse:

. . . whose limbs are graceful with the best of beauty, who is in always in the prime of youth, and who is always plunged in the nectar of bliss.

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