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).

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; nijaown; nikuñjaḥforest grove; astiis; dva-triṃśat—32; vanaforests; samyutaḥendowed; prākārawith a wall; parikhā—and moat; yutaḥ—endowed; aruṇared; akṣayaeternal; vaṭabanyan 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, . . .

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