Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.2.55, 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:

घन-प्रभं पद्म-दलायुतेक्षणं
प्रलम्ब-बाहुं बहु-पीत-वाससम्
वृन्दावनोन्मत्त-मिलिन्द-शब्दैर्
विराजितं श्री-वन-मालया हरिम्

ghana-prabhaṃ padma-dalāyutekṣaṇaṃ
pralamba-bāhuṃ bahu-pīta-vāsasam
vṛndāvanonmatta-milinda-śabdair
virājitaṃ śrī-vana-mālayā harim

ghanaof a raincloud; prabham—splendor; padmalotus; dalapetal; āyutalarge; īkṣaṇam—eyes; pralambalong; bāhum—arms; bahugreat; pītayellow; vāsasam—garments; vṛndāvanain Vṛndāvan; unmattamaddened; milindaof bees; śabdaiḥ—by the sounds; virājitam—splendid; śrī—beautiful; vanaforest; mālayā—with a garland; harim—Śrī Kṛṣṇa.

English translation of verse 1.2.55:

. . . who was splendid as a raincloud, whose large eyes were lotus petals, whose arms were long, who wore great yellow garments, who was splendid with a beautiful forest garland filled with the sounds of intoxicated bees.

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