Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.2.53, 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:

हंसाभैर् व्यजनान्दोल-
चामरैर् वज्र-मुष्टिभिः
कोटि-चन्द्र-प्रतीकाशैः
सेवितं छत्र-कोटिभिः

haṃsābhair vyajanāndola-
cāmarair vajra-muṣṭibhiḥ
koṭi-candra-pratīkāśaiḥ
sevitaṃ chatra-koṭibhiḥ

haṃḥ—swans; ābhaiḥ—like; vyajana-andola-cāmaraiḥ—with cāmaras; vajradiamond; muṣṭibhiḥ—handles; koṭimillions; candraof moons; pratīkāśaiḥ—splendid; sevitam—served; chatraparasols; koṭibhiḥ—with millions.

English translation of verse 1.2.53:

. . . who was served with diamond-handled cāmaras glorious as swans and millions of parasols like millions of moons, . . .

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