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:
श्री-वृन्दोवाच <इ>दुर्वाससा स्वयं दत्तो वरस् तस्यै महर्षिणा
इति कात्यायनी-वक्त्राच् छ्रुतम् आसीन् मया पुराśrī-vṛndovāca durvāsasā svayaṃ datto varas tasyai maharṣiṇā
iti kātyāyanī-vaktrāc chrutam āsīn mayā purā
Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:
śrī-vṛndā uvāca—Śrī Vṛndā said; durvāsasā—by Durvāsā Muni; svayam—personally; dattaḥ—given; varaḥ—boon; tasyai—to Her; maharṣiṇā—by the great sage; iti—thus; kātyāyanī- vaktrāt—from the mouht of Katyayani; śrutam—heard; āsīt—was; mayā—by me; purā—before.
English translation of verse:
Śrī Vṛndā said: The great sage Durvāsā gave Rādhā a boon that She would be the best of cooks. This I heard from the mouth of Kātyāyanī.