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).

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

pītayellow; pucchāḥtails; sa-vatsāḥwith calves; ca—also; taruṇīof young girls; karaof the hand; cihnikāḥ—with the marks; haridrawith turmeric; kuakumaiḥ—and kuakuma; yuktāḥendowed; citracolorful; dhātuwith 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.

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