Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.8.7, 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 2 of Chapter 8 (Description of Seeing Lord Krishna) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

श्रुत्वा वंशी-रवं गोप्यः
सम्भ्रमच् छीघ्रम् उत्थितः
पयांसि पाययाम् आसुर्
लालयित्वा सुतान् पृथक्

śrutvā vaṃśī-ravaṃ gopyaḥ
sambhramac chīghram utthitaḥ
payāṃsi pāyayām āsur
lālayitvā sutān pṛthak

śrutvāhearing; vaṃśīof the flute; ravam—the sound; gopyaḥ—the gopīs; sambhramat—fainted; śīghram—at once3; utthitaḥ—stood up; payāṃsi—milk; pāyayām āsuḥ—made flow; lālayitvā—embracing; sutān—sons; pṛthakindividually.

English translation of verse 2.8.7:

Hearing the sound of the flute, the gopīs fainted and then suddenly stood up.

As milk flowed from them, each embraced her son.

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