Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.2.12, 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 2 (Description of the Abode of Shri Goloka) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

इन्द्रायण-फलानीव
लुठन्त्य् अन्यानि वै जले
विलोक्य विस्मिताः सर्वे
बभुवुस् चकिता इव

indrāyaṇa-phalānīva
luṭhanty anyāni vai jale
vilokya vismitāḥ sarve
babhuvus cakitā iva

indrāyaṇa-phalāni—kuṭaja fruits; iva—like; luṭhanti—moving to and fro; anyāni—others; vai—certainly; jale—in the water; vilokyaseeing; vismitāḥ—astonished; sarve—all; babhuvuḥ—became; cakitāḥ—frightened; iva—as if.

English translation of verse 1.2.12:

When the saw the other universes were like many kuṭaja fruits bobbing in the water (of the Kāraṇa Ocean), they all became frightened and surprised.

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