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:

देवी कृष्णमयी प्रोक्ता राधिका पर-देवता
सर्व-लक्ष्मी-स्वरूपा सा कृष्णाह्लाद-स्वरूपिणी

devī kṛṣṇamayī proktā rādhikā para-devatā
sarva-lakṣmī-svarūpā sā kṛṣṇāhlāda-svarūpiṇī

Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:

devīwho shines brilliantly; kṛṣṇamayī—non-different from Lord Kṛṣṇa; proktā—called; rādhikāŚrīmatī Rādhārāṇī; para- devatāmost worshipable; sarva-lakṣmī-svarūpā—presiding over all the goddesses of fortune; sā—She; kṛṣṇāhlāda-svarūpiṇī—the pleasure of Lord Kṛṣṇa.

English translation of verse:

The transcendental goddess Śrī Rādhā is the direct counterpart of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. She is the central figure for all the goddesses of fortune.* She is the pleasure-potency of Lord Kṛṣṇa.

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