Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.4.26, 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 4 (Description of Questions About the Lord’s Appearance) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

नाना-रास-रसोन्मत्तं
यत्र गोपी-कदम्बकम्
तत्-कदम्बक-मध्य-स्थः
किशोराकृतिर् अच्युतः

nānā-rāsa-rasonmattaṃ
yatra gopī-kadambakam
tat-kadambaka-madhya-sthaḥ
kiśorākṛtir acyutaḥ

nānāvarious; rāsaof rāsa dances; rasaby the nectar; unmattam—intoxicated; yatrawhere; gopīof gopīs; kadambakam—the multitude; tat-kadambakaof that multitude; madhyain the middle; sthaḥ—standing; kiśorayouthful; ākṛtiḥ—form; acyutaḥ—the infallible Lord.

English translation of verse 1.4.26:

. . . and where the infallible Lord, whose form is that of a youth, stood among many gopīs intoxicated by tasting the nectar of many rāsa dances.

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