Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.11.16, 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 11 (Description of Shri Krishnacandra’s Birth) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

उज्ज्वलास् तारका जाताः
प्रसन्नं भूमि-मण्डलम्
नदा नद्यः समुद्राश् च
प्रसन्नापः सरोवराः

ujjvalās tārakā jātāḥ
prasannaṃ bhūmi-maṇḍalam
nadā nadyaḥ samudrāś ca
prasannāpaḥ sarovarāḥ

ujjvalāḥbrilliant; tārakāḥstars; jātāḥborn; prasannam—happy; bhūmi-maṇḍalam—the earth; nadāḥ—rivers; nadyaḥ—streams; samudrāḥ—oceans; ca—and; prasannaclear; āpaḥ—waters; sarovarāḥ—lakes.

English translation of verse 1.11.16:

The stars were bright, the earth happy, and the rivers, streams, oceans, and lakes filled with pure waters.

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