Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.13.4, 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 13 (The Liberation of Putana) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:

न के ऽपि रुरुधुर् गोपाः
सुन्दरीं तां च गोपिकाः
शचीं वाणीं रमां रम्भां
रतिं च क्षिपतीम् इव

na ke 'pi rurudhur gopāḥ
sundarīṃ tāṃ ca gopikāḥ
śacīṃ vāṇīṃ ramāṃ rambhāṃ
ratiṃ ca kṣipatīm iva

na—not; ke api—anyone; rurudhuḥ—stopped; gopāḥgopas; sundarīm—beautiful; tām—her; ca—also; gopikāḥ—gopīs; śacīm—Śacī; vāṇīm—Sarasvatī; ramāṃlakṣmī; rambhām—Rambhā; ratim—Rati; ca—also; kṣipatīm—eclipsing; iva—as if.

English translation of verse 1.13.4:

No gopa or gopī stopped this beautiful girl, who seemed to eclipse the goddesses Śacī, Sarasvatī, Lakṣmī, Rambhā, and Rati.

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