Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.2.45, 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:

पाटला हरितास् तम्राः
पीताः श्यामा विचित्रिताः
धूम्राः कोकिल-वर्णाश् च
यत्र गावस् त्व् अनेकधा

pāṭalā haritās tamrāḥ
pītāḥ śyāmā vicitritāḥ
dhūmrāḥ kokila-varṇāś ca
yatra gāvas tv anekadhā

paṭalāḥ—pink; haritāḥgreen; tamrāḥ—green; pītāḥyellow; śyāmāḥblack; vicitritāḥ—many wonderful colors; dhūmrāḥ—the color of smoke; kokilaof cuckoos; varṇāś—the color; ca—and; yatrawhere; gāvaḥ—cows; tu—indeed; anekadhā—many.

English translation of verse 1.2.45:

. . . many different wonderful colors, some pink, some green, some red, some yellow, some black, some smokey, and some the color of cuckoos, . . .

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