Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.3.4, 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 3 (Description of the Lord’s Appearance) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:

रथे लक्ष-हये शुभ्रे
स्थितश् चागतवांस् ततः
श्वेतद्वीपाधिपो भूमा
सहस्र-भुज-मण्डितः

rathe lakṣa-haye śubhre
sthitaś cāgatavāṃs tataḥ
śvetadvīpādhipo bhūmā
sahasra-bhuja-maṇḍitaḥ

rathe—in a chariot; lakṣawith a hundred thousand; haye—horses; śubhre—splendid; sthitaś—standing; ca—also; āgatavān—arrived; tataḥ—then; śvetadvīpa-adhipo—the master of Śvetadvīpa; bhūmāthe Lord; sahasra-bhuja-maṇḍitaḥ—decorated with a thousand arms.

English translation of verse 1.3.4:

Then the master of Śvetadvīpa, who was decorated with a thousand arms, came in a splendid chariot drawn by a hundred thousand horses.

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