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:

अविदूर इतः स्थानात् केशि-तीर्थ-समीपतः
सखी-सङ्घ-वृता सास्ते गोविन्द-परिचारिका

avidūra itaḥ sthānāt keśi-tīrtha-samīpataḥ
sakhī-saṅgha-vṛtā sāste govinda-paricārikā

Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:

a—not; vidūre—far away; itaḥ—from this; sthānāt—place; keśi-tīrtha-samīpataḥ—near Keśi-tīrtha; sakhī-saṅgha- vṛtā—surrounded by many gopīs; sā—she; āste—is; govinda- paricārikā—a servant of Lord Govinda.

English translation of verse:

She stays near Keśi-tīrtha, which is not far from this place. She is surrounded by many gopī friends. She is a maidservant of Lord Kṛṣṇa.

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