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:

निद्रितो तिष्ठतस् तल्पे निविडालिङ्गतौ मिथः
मद्-आज्ञा-कारिभिः पश्चात् पक्षिभिर् बोधिताव् अपि

nidrito tiṣṭhatas talpe niviḍāliṅgatau mithaḥ
mad-ājñā-kāribhiḥ paścāt pakṣibhir bodhitāv api

Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:

nidritaḥ—asleep; tiṣṭhataḥ—staying; talpe—on a bed; niviḍa—tightly; āliṅgatau—embracing; mithaḥ—together; mad-āj 24ā-kāribhiḥ—carrying my orders; paścāt—after; pakṣibhiḥ—by birds; bodhitau—awakened; api—even.

English translation of verse:

. . . on a graceful bed, the sleeping, tightly embracing divine couple were awakened by birds following my command.

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