Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.2.39, 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:

पतत्-पताकैर् दिव्याभैः
पुष्प-मन्दिर-वर्त्मभिः
जात-भ्रमर-सङ्गीतो
मत्त-बर्हि-पिक-स्वनः

patat-patākair divyābhaiḥ
puṣpa-mandira-vartmabhiḥ
jāta-bhramara-saṅgīto
matta-barhi-pika-svanaḥ

patatmoving; patākaiḥ—with flags; divyābhaiḥ—glorious; puṣpaof flowers; mandirapalaces; vartmabhiḥ—with pathways; jātaborn; bhramaraof bees; saṅgītaḥ—song; mattamaddened; barhipeacocks; pikaand cuckoos; svanaḥ—the sound.

English translation of verse 1.2.39:

. . . .where there were splendid flags moving (in the breeze), pathways that were flower palaces, and the singing of many bees and many maddened peacocks and cuckoos, . . .

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