Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.8.6, 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 8 (Description of Shri Radhika’s Birth) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

अथैव राधा वृशभानु-पत्न्याम्
आवेश्य रूपं महसः पराख्यम्
कलिन्दजा-कुल-निकुञ्ज-देशे
सु-मन्दिरे सावततार राजन्

athaiva rādhā vṛśabhānu-patnyām
āveśya rūpaṃ mahasaḥ parākhyam
kalindajā-kula-nikuñja-deśe
su-mandire sāvatatāra rājan

athathen; eva—indeed; rādhāRādhā; vṛśabhānu-patnyām—in the wife of Vṛṣabhānu; āveśya—entering; rūpaṃform; mahasaḥof glory; para—transcendental; ākhyam—named; kalindajā—of the Yamunā; kulashore; nikuñja-deśe—in the forest grove; su-mandire—in a great palace; sā—She; avatatāra—descended; rājanO king.

English translation of verse 1.8.6:

Then, placing Her glorious transcendental form in (the womb of) King Vṛṣabhānu's wife, Śrī Rādhā descended into a great palace in a garden by the Yamunā's shore.

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