Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.2.21, English translation, including word-by-word: This text represents a Vaishnava scripture which narrates the life Krishna, It was composed in seventeen cantos by Garga Muni: an ancient sage and priest of the Yadu dynasty having. This is verse 1 of Chapter 2 (Description of the Abode of Shri Goloka) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:

श्री-देवा ऊचुः
लोक-पाला वयं सर्वे
ब्रह्म-विष्णु-महेश्वराः
श्री-कृष्ण-दर्शनार्थाय
शक्राद्या आगता इह

śrī-devā ūcuḥ
loka-pālā vayaṃ sarve
brahma-viṣṇu-maheśvarāḥ
śrī-kṛṣṇa-darśanārthāya
śakrādyā āgatā iha

śrī-devāḥ ūcuḥ—the demigods said; loka-pālāḥprotectors of the planets; vayam—we; sarve—all; brahma-viṣṇu-maheśvarāḥ—Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva; śrī-kṛṣṇaŚrī Kṛṣṇa; darśanaseeing; arthāya—for the purpose; śakraby Indra; ādyāḥ—headed;' āgatāḥ—come; iha—here.

English translation of verse 1.2.21:

The demigods said: We, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva, all the protectors of the planets, and the demigods headed by Indra, have come here to see Śrī Kṛṣṇa.

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