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:

ह्लादिनी य महा-शक्तिः सर्व-शक्ति-वरीयसी
तत्-सार-भाव-रूपा श्री- राधिका परिकीर्तिता

hlādinī ya mahā-śaktiḥ sarva-śakti-varīyasī
tat-sāra-bhāva-rūpā śrī- rādhikā parikīrtitā

Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:

hlādinīHladini; ya—which; mahā-śaktiḥ—great potency; sarva- śakti-varīyasī—the best of all potencies; tat-sāra- bhāva-rūpā—the from of ecstatic love; śrī-rādhikā—Śrī Rādhā; parikīrtitā—named.

English translation of verse:

The Hlādinī potency is the best of all potencies is. That potency is the personification of ecstatic love. That potency is called Śrī Rādhā.

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