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:

क्शणाद् एव ततो वस्त्रं दूरी-कृत्य तद्-अङ्गतः
साधु-निद्रां गतो ऽसीति हासयन्त्यो हसन्ति तम्

kśaṇād eva tato vastraṃ dūrī-kṛtya tad-aṅgataḥ
sādhu-nidrāṃ gato 'sīti hāsayantyo hasanti tam

Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:

kśaṇād—in a moment; eva—indeed; tato—then; vastraṃ—the cloth; dūrī-kṛtya—putting far away; tad-aṅgataḥ—from His body; sādhu—good; nidrāṃ—sleep; gato—attained; asi—You are; iti—thus; hāsayantyo—making laugh; hasanti—laughing; tam—Him.

English translation of verse:

Suddenly pulling the blanket from His limbs and exclaiming, "My, You must have had a pleasant sleep!", they laughed and make Lord Kṛṣṇa laugh also.

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