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:

किञ्चिद् एव ततो भुक्त्वा व्रजेच् छय्या-निकेतनम्
द्रष्टुं कान्त-मुखाम्भोजं चकोरी-वन् निशाकरम्

kiñcid eva tato bhuktvā vrajec chayyā-niketanam
draṣṭuṃ kānta-mukhāmbhojaṃ cakorī-van niśākaram

Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:

kiñcid—something; eva—indeed; tato—then; bhuktvā—eating; vrajet—goes; śayyā-niketanam—to the bed; draṣṭuṃ—to see; kānta-mukhāmbhojaṃ—the lotus face of Her beloved; cakorī—a cakori bird; vat—like; niśākaram—the moon.

English translation of verse:

After eating, Śrī Rādhā went to the bed to gaze on Her beloved's lotus face as a cakorī bird gazes at the moon.

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