Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.13.5, 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:

रोहिण्यां च यशोदायां
धर्षितायां स्फुरत्-कुचा
अङ्कम् आदाय तं बालं
लालयन्ती पुनः पुनः

rohiṇyāṃ ca yaśodāyāṃ
dharṣitāyāṃ sphurat-kucā
aṅkam ādāya taṃ bālaṃ
lālayantī punaḥ punaḥ

rohiṇyām—when Rohiṇī; ca—also; yaśodāyām—Yaśodā; dharṣitāyām—were arrogantly ignored; sphuratmanifest; kucābreasts; aṅkam—on her lap; ādāyataking; tam—Him; bālam—the infant; lālayantī—fondling; punaḥ punaḥ—again and again.

English translation of verse 1.13.5:

Ignoring Rohiṇī and Yaśodā, she took the infant on her lap, fondled Him again and again, and then exposed her breasts.

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