Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.15.23, 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 15 (Revelation of the Universal Form to Nanda’s Wife) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

श्री-नारद उवाच
उत्थाय गर्गो नन्देन
बालाभ्यां च यशोदया
एकान्ते गो-व्रजे गत्वा
तयोर् नाम चकार ह

śrī-nārada uvāca
utthāya gargo nandena
bālābhyāṃ ca yaśodayā
ekānte go-vraje gatvā
tayor nāma cakāra ha

śrī-nāradaḥ uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; utthāyarising; gargaḥGarga; nandena—with Nanda; bālābhyām—with the two boys; ca—and; yaśodayā—with Yaśodā; ekānte—to a secluded place; go-vraje—in the barn; gatvā—going; tayoḥ—of Them; nāmathe name; cakāra ha—did.

English translation of verse 1.15.23:

Garga Muni rose and went with Nanda, Yaśodā, and the two boys, to a secluded place in the cow shed. There he performed the name-giving ceremony.

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