Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.11.45, 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:

निर्गते वसुदेवे च
मूर्ध्नि श्री-कृष्ण-शोभिते
सूर्योदये यथा सद्यस्
तमो-नाशो ऽभवत् स्वतः

nirgate vasudeve ca
mūrdhni śrī-kṛṣṇa-śobhite
sūryodaye yathā sadyas
tamo-nāśo 'bhavat svataḥ

nirgate—gone; vasudeve—Vasudeva; ca—also; mūrdhni—on the head; śrī-kṛṣṇawith Śrī Kṛṣṇa; śobhite—beautified; sūrya-udaye—in the sunrise; yathā—as; sadyaḥ—at once; tamaḥ—of the darkness; nāśaḥ—destruction; abhavat—became; svataḥ—spontaneously.

English translation of verse 1.11.45:

When, his head decorated with Śrī Kṛṣṇa, Vasudeva left, the darkness became at once destroyed, as if the sun had suddenly risen.

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