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:

अन्तरीक्श-गतं कुर्याच् छक्तिर् आकर्शिणी हरेः
क्रीडान्ते स्थापयेत् तां तु स्थापिनी कृश्ण-देहतः

antarīkśa-gataṃ kuryāc chaktir ākarśiṇī hareḥ
krīḍānte sthāpayet tāṃ tu sthāpinī kṛṣṇa-dehataḥ

Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:

antarīkśa-gataṃ—in the sky; kuryāt—does; śaktir—potency; ākarśiṇī—Akarśiṇī; hareḥ—of Lord Kṛṣṇa; krīḍānte—at the end of pastimes; sthāpayet—establishes; tāṃ—that; tu—indeed; sthāpinī—Sthāpinī; kṛṣṇa-dehataḥ—from Lord Kṛṣṇa's body.

English translation of verse:

The potency Akarṣiṇī manifests the Lord's pastimes from the spiritual sky. The potency Sthāpinī manifests the Lord's pastimes from Lord Kṛṣṇa's body.

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