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:

हसन्तं हास्यन्तं च मध्ये गोपी-कदम्बकम्
स्निग्ध-मेधसम् आभास- कल्याण-गुण-मन्दिरम्

hasantaṃ hāsyantaṃ ca madhye gopī-kadambakam
snigdha-medhasam ābhāsa- kalyāṇa-guṇa-mandiram

Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:

hasantam—laughing; hāsyantam—making laugh; ca—and; madhye—in the midst; gopī-kadambakam—many gopīs; snigdha—with love; medhasam—intelligence; ābhāsa—splendor; kalyāṇa—auspiciousness; guṇavirtues; mandiram—a palace.

English translation of verse:

. . . who stood in the midst of many gopīs, laughing and making them laugh, whose heart was filled with love, and who was a great palace of splendor, auspiciousness, and virtues.

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