Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 1.2.37, 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).
Verse 1.2.37
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
मध्ये निज-निकुञ्जो ऽस्ति
द्व-त्रिंशद्-वन-सम्युतः
प्रकर-परिखा-युतो
ऽरुणाक्षय-वटाजिरः
madhye nija-nikuñjo 'sti
dva-triṃśad-vana-samyutaḥ
prakara-parikhā-yuto
'ruṇākṣaya-vaṭājiraḥ
madhye—in the midst; nija—own; nikuñjaḥ—forest grove; asti—is; dva-triṃśat—32; vana—forests; samyutaḥ—endowed; prākāra—with a wall; parikhā—and moat; yutaḥ—endowed; aruṇa—red; akṣaya—eternal; vaṭa—banyan trees; ajiraḥ—courtyard.
English translation of verse 1.2.37:
. . . where in the middle is the Lord's personal woodland of 32 forests, which is surrounded by walls and moats and endowed with a reddish courtyard of eternal banyan trees, . . .