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 ...
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Sanskrit text and Unicode transliteration:
कलौ किल भविष्यन्ति नराः पाप-परायणाः
स्व्-अल्पायुषा च मन्द-भाग्या मन्द-प्रज्ञाः कु-मेधसःkalau kila bhaviṣyanti narāḥ pāpa-parāyaṇāḥ
sv-alpāyuṣā ca manda-bhāgyā manda-prajñāḥ ku-medhasaḥ
Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:
kalau—in Kali-yugae; kila—indeed; bhaviṣyanti—will be; narāḥ—people; pāpa-parāyaṇāḥ—sinners; sv- alpāyuṣā—with short lives; ca—and; manda-bhāgyā—unfortunate; manda-prajñāḥ—unintelligent; ku-medhasaḥ—fools;.
English translation of verse:
In Kali-yuga the people will be sinful, short-lived, unfortunate, slow, and unintelligent.