Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.10.8, 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 10 (Description of Shri Krishna’s Herding the Cows) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).
Verse 2.10.8
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
काश्चित् पीता विचित्राश् च
श्यामाश् च हरितास् तथा
ताम्रा धूम्रा घन-श्यामा
घन-श्यामे गतेक्षणाः
kāścit pītā vicitrāś ca
śyāmāś ca haritās tathā
tāmrā dhūmrā ghana-śyāmā
ghana-śyāme gatekṣaṇāḥ
kāścit—some; pītā—yellow; vicitrāś—multicolored; ca—and; śyāmāś—black; ca—and; haritāḥ—green; tathā—so; tāmrā—brown; dhūmrā—smokey; ghana- śyāmā—the color of clouds; ghana-śyāme—on Kṛṣṇa, who was dark as a cloud; gata—gone; īkṣaṇāḥ—eyes.
English translation of verse 2.10.8:
Some were yellow, some multicolored, some black, some green, some smoke-colored, and some cloud-colored. All their eyes were placed on Kṛṣṇa, His form dark as a cloud.