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:

कियद् दूरं ततो गत्वा परावृत्य हरिः पुनः
विप्र-वेशं समास्थाप्य याति सूर्य-गृहं प्रति

kiyad dūraṃ tato gatvā parāvṛtya hariḥ punaḥ
vipra-veśaṃ samāsthāpya yāti sūrya-gṛhaṃ prati

Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:

kiyad—how?; dūraṃ—far; tato—then; gatvā—going; parāvṛtya—returning; hariḥ—Lord Kṛṣṇa; punaḥ—again; vipra-veśaṃ—in the dress of a brāhmaṇa; samāsthāpya—placing; yāti—goes; sūrya- gṛhaṃ—to the sun-god's temple; prati—to.

English translation of verse:

Lord goes a short distance, disguises Himself as a brāhmaṇa, and then goes to the temple of the sun-god.

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