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:
सरः-समुद्र-नद्य्-आदीन् विहाय चातकी यथा
त्र्षिति म्रियते वापि याचते वा पयोधरात्saraḥ-samudra-nady-ādīn vihāya cātakī yathā
trṣiti mriyate vāpi yācate vā payodharāt
Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:
saraḥ—lakes; samudra—ocean; nadī—rivers; ādīn—beginning with; vihāya—rejecting; cātakī—cataki bird; yathā—as; trṣiti—thirsts; mriyate—dies; vā—or; api—even; yācate—begs; vā—or; payodharāt—from a cloud.
English translation of verse:
Rejecting lakes, rivers, oceans, and any other source of water, a cātakī bird will drink only water falling from a cloud. It will die of thirst before accepting any other water.