Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.15.47, 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 15 (Revelation of the Universal Form to Nanda’s Wife) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

तीर्थी-भूता वयं गोपा
जातास् त्वद्-दर्शनात् प्रभो
तीर्थानि तीर्थी-कुर्वन्ति
त्वादृशः साधवः क्षितौ

tīrthī-bhūtā vayaṃ gopā
jātās tvad-darśanāt prabho
tīrthāni tīrthī-kurvanti
tvādṛśaḥ sādhavaḥ kṣitau

tīrthī-bhūtāḥgone on pilgrimage; vayam—we; gopāḥgopas; jātāḥborn; tvatof you; darśanāt—by the sight; prabhaḥ—O lord; tīrthāni—the places of pilgrimage; tīrthī-kurvanti—make places of pilgrimage; tvādṛśaḥ—like you; sādhavaḥ—saints; kṣitau—on the earth.

English translation of verse 1.15.47:

O lord, by seeing you we gopas have gone on pilgrimage. Saints like you sanctify the sacred places in this world.

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