Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.1.28, 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 1 (Description of Shri-Krishna’s Glories) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

श्री-गर्ग उवाच
तच् छ्रुत्वा हर्षितो राजा
रोमाञ्ची प्रेम-विह्वलः
प्रमृश्य नेत्रे ऽश्रु-पूर्णे
नारदं वाक्यम् अब्रवीत्

śrī-garga uvāca
tac chrutvā harṣito rājā
romāñcī prema-vihvalaḥ
pramṛśya netre 'śru-pūrṇe
nāradaṃ vākyam abravīt

śrī-gargaḥ uvāca—Śrī Garga said; tat śrutvāhearing; harśitaḥ—delighted; rājāthe king; romāñcī—his bodily hairs erect; premawith love; vihvalaḥ—overcome; pramṛśya—wiping; netre—his eyes; aśruwith tears; pūrṇe—filled; nāradam—to Nārada; vākyam—a statement; abravīt—said.

English translation of verse 1.1.28:

Śrī Garga said: Hearing this, the king became very happy. Overcome with love and the hairs of his body erect in ecstasy, he wiped his tear-filled eyes and spoke to Nārada.

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