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:

सख्यो ऽपि मधुभिर् मत्ता निद्रया पिहितेक्शणाः
अभितः कुञ्ज-पुञ्जेषु सर्वा एव विलिल्यरे

sakhyo 'pi madhubhir mattā nidrayā pihitekśaṇāḥ
abhitaḥ kuñja-puñjeṣu sarvā eva vililyare

Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:

sakhyo—friends; api—also; madhubhir—with nectar; mattā—intoxicated; nidrayā—with sleep; pihitekśaṇāḥ—closed eyes; abhitaḥ—everywhere; kuñja-puñjeṣu—in the forests; sarvā—ass; eva—indeed; vililyare—enter.

English translation of verse:

Intoxicated by drinking nectar, and their eyes closed with sleepiness, the gopīs entered the nearby forest groves.

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