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:

त्रायस्व भो जगन्-नाथ गुरो संसार-वह्निना
दग्धं च काल-दष्टं च त्राहि मं भव-सागरात्

trāyasva bho jagan-nātha guro saṃsāra-vahninā
dagdhaṃ ca kāla-daṣṭaṃ ca trāhi maṃ bhava-sāgarāt

Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:

trāyasva—please protect; bhaḥ—O; jagan-nāthaspiritual master of the universes; guraḥ—O spiritual master; saṃsāra-vahninā—by the fire of repeated birth and death; dagdham—burned; ca—and; kālaby time; daṣṭam—bitten; ca—and; trāhi—please protect; mam—me; bhava-sāgarāt—from the ocean of birth and death.

English translation of verse:

O spiritual master of all the worlds, please rescue me, for I am burning in the fire of repeated birth and death! I am bitten by the black snake of time! Please rescue me from the ocean of birth and death!

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