Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.4.44, 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 4 (Description of Questions About the Lord’s Appearance) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

वीक्ष्य तं मोहम् आपन्ना
मूर्छिताः प्रेम-विह्वलाः
तेपुस् तपस् ताः सारायू-
तीरे राम-धृत-व्रताः

vīkṣya taṃ moham āpannā
mūrchitāḥ prema-vihvalāḥ
tepus tapas tāḥ sārāyū-
tīre rāma-dhṛta-vratāḥ

vīkṣya—seeing; tam—Him; moham—agitation; āpannāḥ—attained; mūrchitāḥ—fainted; premawith love; vihvalāḥ—overcome; tepus tapaḥthey performed austerities; tāḥ—they; sārāyū—of the Sarāyū river; tīre—on the shore; rāma-dhṛta-vratāḥ—with a vow to attain Lord Rāma.

English translation of verse 1.4.44:

Seeing Him, they become bewildered and fainted, overcome with love. With a vow to attain Lord Rāma they performed austerities on the Sarāyū's bank.

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