Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verses 1.2.32-34, 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).
Verses 1.2.32-34
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
अथ देव-गणाः सर्वे
गोलोकम् ददृशुः परम्
तत्र गोवर्धनो नाम
गिरि-राजो विराजते
वसन्त-मालिनीभिश् च
गोपीभिर् गो-गणैर् वृतः
कल्प-वृक्ष-लता-सङ्घै
रास-मण्डल-मण्डितः
यत्र कृष्णा नदी श्यामा
तोलिका-कोटि-मण्डिता
वैदुर्य-कृत-सोपाना
स्वच्छन्द-गतिर् उत्तमा
atha deva-gaṇāḥ sarve
golokam dadṛśuḥ param
tatra govardhano nāma
giri-rājo virājate
vasanta-mālinībhiś ca
gopībhir go-gaṇair vṛtaḥ
kalpa-vṛkṣa-latā-saṅghai
rāsa-maṇḍala-maṇḍitaḥ
yatra kṛṣṇā nadī śyāmā
tolikā-koṭi-maṇḍitā
vaidurya-kṛta-sopānā
svacchanda-gatir uttamā
atha—then; deva-gaṇāḥ—the demigods; sarve—all; golokam—Goloka; dadṛśuḥ—saw; param—then; tatra—there; govardhanaḥ—Govardhana; nāma—named; giri—of mountains; rājaḥ—the king; virājate—is splendidly manifest; vasanta—spring; mālinībhiḥ—with garlands; ca—also; gopībhiḥ—by gopīs; go-gaṇaiḥ—by cows; vṛtaḥ—surrounded; kalpa-vṛkṣa—kalpa-vṛkṣa trees; latā—lalpa-latā vines; saṅghaiḥ—with multitudes; rāsa—of the rāsa dance; maṇḍala—with the circle; maṇḍitaḥ—decorated; yatra—where; kṛṣṇā—the Yamunā; nadī-river; śyāmā—dark; tolikā—gazebos; koṭi—millions; maṇḍitā—decorated; vaidurya—with lapis lazuli; kṛta—made; sopānā—steps; svacchanda—meandering; gatiḥ—paths; uttamā—supreme.
English translation of verses 1.2.32-34:
Then the demigods saw Goloka, where the king of mountains, named Govardhana, which was filled with many cows and with gopīs garlanded with forest flowers, and which was decorated with rāsa-dance circles, is splendidly manifest, where the dark Yamunā river meandered as it wished, (its shores) made with lapis lazuli steps and decorated with millions of gazebos, . . .