Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 1.4.48, 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).
Verse 1.4.48
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
येषाम् आश्रमम् आसद्य
धनुर्-बाण-धरो युवा
तेषां ध्याने गतो रामो
जटा-मुकुट-मण्डितः
yeṣām āśramam āsadya
dhanur-bāṇa-dharo yuvā
teṣāṃ dhyāne gato rāmo
jaṭā-mukuṭa-maṇḍitaḥ
yeṣām—of whom; āśramam—the hermitage; āsadya—attaining; dhanuḥ—bow; bāṇa—and arrows; dharaḥ—holding; yuvā—young; teṣām—of them; dhyāne—in meditation; gataḥ—gone; rāmaḥ—rāma; jaṭā-mukuṭa-maṇḍitaḥ—decorated with matted locks of hair.
English translation of verse 1.4.48:
He came to their āśrama as a youth carrying bow and arrows. Then He appeared in their meditation as a sage with matted hair.