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 ...

verse 263-265

Sanskrit text and Unicode transliteration:

अथापराह्ण-सेवा सङ्गम्य तु सखीन् कृष्णो गृहीत्वा गाः समन्ततः
आगच्छति व्रजं कर्षन् तन् मुरली-रवैः
ततो नन्दादयः सर्वे श्रुत्वा वेणु-रवं हरेः
गो-धूलि-पटलैर् व्याप्तं दृश्ट्वा चापि नभ-स्थलम्
विसृज्य सर्व-कर्माणि स्त्रियो बालादयो ऽपि च
कृष्णस्याभिमुखं यान्ति तद्-दर्शन-समुत्सुकाः

athāparāhṇa-sevā saṅgamya tu sakhīn kṛṣṇo gṛhītvā gāḥ samantataḥ
āgacchati vrajaṃ karṣan tan muralī-ravaiḥ
tato nandādayaḥ sarve śrutvā veṇu-ravaṃ hareḥ

go-dhūli-paṭalair vyāptaṃ dṛśṭvā cāpi nabha-sthalam
visṛjya sarva-karmāṇi striyo bālādayo 'pi ca

kṛṣṇasyābhimukhaṃ yānti tad-darśana-samutsukāḥ

Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:

atha—now; aparāhna-sevā—afternoon pastimes; saṅgamya—meeting; tu—indeed; sakhīn—friends; kṛṣṇo—Lord Kṛṣṇa; gṛhītvā—taking; gās—the cows; samantataḥ—everywhere; āgacchati—returns; vrajaṃ—to Vraja village; karṣan—attracting; tan—them; muralī-ravaiḥ—with the sound of His flute. tato—then; nanda—by Nanda Maharaja; ādayaḥ—headed; sarve—all; śrutvā—hearing; veṇu-ravaṃ—the sound of the flute; hareḥ—of Lord Kṛṣṇa; go-dhūli-paṭalair—with the dust raised by the cows; vyāptaṃ—filled; dṛśṭvā—seeing; ca—and; api—also; nabha-sthalam—the sky; visṛjya—abandoning; sarva-karmāṇi—all work; striyo—women; bāla—children; ādayo—beginning with; api—and; ca—also; kṛṣṇasya—of Lord Kṛṣṇa; abhimukhaṃ—to the presence; yānti—go; tad-darśana-samutsukāḥ—eager to see Him.

English translation of verse:

Pastimes in the Afternoon Meeting with His gopa friends, taking the cows with Him, and attracting everyone with the music of His flute, Lord Kṛṣṇa returned to Vraja Village. (264-265) Hearing the sound of Kṛṣṇa's flute and seeing the sky filled with the dust raised by the cows, King Nanda and all the men, women, and children of Vraja stopped all they were doing and ran to see Kṛṣṇa.

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