Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 1.12.14, 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 1.12.14
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
वंसी-धारा वेत्र-हस्ताः
सु-पात्र-तिलकार्चिताः
बद्ध-वर्णाः परीकारा
गोपास् ते ऽपि समाययुः
vaṃsī-dhārā vetra-hastāḥ
su-pātra-tilakārcitāḥ
baddha-varṇāḥ parīkārā
gopās te 'pi samāyayuḥ
vaṃsī—flutes; dhārāḥ—holding; vetra—sticks; hastāḥ—in hand; su-pātra—with beautiful pictures and designs; tilaka—with tilaka; arcitāḥ—anointed; baddha-barhāḥ—with peacock feathers; parīkārāḥ—multitudes; gopāḥ—gopas; te—they; api—also; samāyayuḥ—came.
English translation of verse 1.12.14:
Carrying flutes, sticks in hand, and decorated with peacock feathers and tilaka decorations, many cowherd men came.