Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 1.12.4, 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 12 (Description of Shri Nanda’s Festival) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).
Verse 1.12.4
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
मृदङ्ग-वीणा-शङ्खाद्या
नेदुर् दुन्दुभयो मुहुः
गायकाश् च जगुर् द्वारे
ननृतुर् वार-योषितः
mṛdaṅga-vīṇā-śaṅkhādyā
nedur dundubhayo muhuḥ
gāyakāś ca jagur dvāre
nanṛtur vāra-yoṣitaḥ
mṛdaṅga-vīṇā-śaṅkhādyāḥ—beginning with mṛdaṅgas, vīṇās, and śaṅkhas; neduḥ—sounded; dundubhayaḥ—drums; muhuḥ—again and again; gāyakāḥ—singers; ca—also; jaguḥ—sang; dvāre—at the door; nanṛtuḥ—danced; vāra-yoṣitaḥ—vārāaganās.
English translation of verse 1.12.4:
Mṛdaṅgas, vīṇās, śaṅkhas, dundubhis, and other instruments sounded again and again, singers sang, and at the entrance vārāaganās danced.