Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.2.52, 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:

दिव्यैर् अष्ट-सखी-सङ्घैर्
मोहिन्य्-आदिभिर् अन्वितम्
श्रीदामाद्यैः सेव्यमानम्
अष्ट-गोपाल-मण्डलैः

divyair aṣṭa-sakhī-saṅghair
mohiny-ādibhir anvitam
śrīdāmādyaiḥ sevyamānam
aṣṭa-gopāla-maṇḍalaiḥ

divyaiḥ—splendid; aṣṭaeight; sakhīof friends; saṅghaiḥ—multitudes; mohinī-ādibhiḥ—headed by Mohinī; anvitam—with; śrīdāma-ādyaiḥ—headed by Śrīdāmā; sevyamānam—being served; aṣṭa—eight; gopālacowherd boys; maṇḍalaiḥ—served.

English translation of verse 1.2.52:

. . . who was accompanied by eight splendid gopī friends headed by Mohinī and served by eight gopas headed by Śrīdāmā, . . .

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