Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.12.9, 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:

बर्हि-पुच्छैर् गन्ध-जलैर्
वृषा धर्म-धुरन्धराः
इतस् ततो विरेजुः श्री-
नन्द-द्वारि मनोहराः

barhi-pucchair gandha-jalair
vṛṣā dharma-dhurandharāḥ
itas tato virejuḥ śrī-
nanda-dvāri manoharāḥ

barhipeacock; pucchaiḥ—with feathers; gandhascented; jalaiḥwith water; vṛṣābulls; dharma-dhurandharāḥ—bearing the principles of religion; itas tataḥhere and there; virejuḥ—shone; śrī-nanda-dvāri—at Nanda's door; manoharāḥ—handsome.

English translation of verse 1.12.9:

Decorated with peacock feathers and sprinkled with scented water, many bulls bearing the principles of religion shone gloriously at Śrī Nanda's door.

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