Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 1.12.8, 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 1.12.8
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
पीत-पुच्छा स-वत्साश् च
तरुणी-कर-चिह्निकाः
हरिद्र-कुअकुमैर् युक्तास्
चित्र-धातु-विचित्रिताः
pīta-pucchā sa-vatsāś ca
taruṇī-kara-cihnikāḥ
haridra-kuakumair yuktās
citra-dhātu-vicitritāḥ
pīta—yellow; pucchāḥ—tails; sa-vatsāḥ—with calves; ca—also; taruṇī—of young girls; kara—of the hand; cihnikāḥ—with the marks; haridra—with turmeric; kuakumaiḥ—and kuakuma; yuktāḥ—endowed; citra—colorful; dhātu—with mineral pigments; vicitritāḥ—decorated with pictures and designs.
English translation of verse 1.12.8:
Their tails were yellow, their calves were by their sides, they were decorated with taruṇī-karas, they were anointed with turmeric and kuakuma, and they were decorated with designs and pictures drawn in mineral colors.