Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.6.2, 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 6 of Chapter 6 (The Yadavas’ Victory When Shri Rukmini is Kidnapped) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).
Verse 6.6.2
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
त्यक्त्वा मुनि-व्रतं भैष्मी
गिरिजा-गृहतस् ततः
सहलीभिः सखीभिश् च
निश्चक्राम शनैः शनैः
tyaktvā muni-vrataṃ bhaiṣmī
girijā-gṛhatas tataḥ
sahalībhiḥ sakhībhiś ca
niścakrāma śanaiḥ śanaiḥ
tyaktvā—abandoning; muni-vratam—the vow of silence; bhaiṣmī—Rukmiṇī; girijā-gṛhataḥ—from the temple of Pārvatī; tataḥ—then; sahalībhiḥ—with her friends; sakhībhiś—friends; ca—and; niścakrāma—went; śanaiḥ śanaiḥ—gradually.
English translation of verse 6.6.2:
Now abandoning her vow of silence, in the company of her friends Rukmiṇī left Pārvatī's temple, walking with exaggerated slowness.