Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 1.16.51, 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 16 (Description of Shri Radhika’s Wedding) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).
Verse 1.16.51
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
हरेश् च शृङ्गारम् अलं प्रकर्तुं
समुद्यता तत्र यदा हि राधा
तदैव कृष्णस् तु बभूव बालो
विहाय कैशोर-वपुः स्वयं हि
hareś ca śṛṅgāram alaṃ prakartuṃ
samudyatā tatra yadā hi rādhā
tadaiva kṛṣṇas tu babhūva bālo
vihāya kaiśora-vapuḥ svayaṃ hi
hareḥ—of Lord Hari; ca—and; śṛṅgāram—decoration; alam—greatly; prakartum—to do; samudyatā—eager; tatra—there; yadā—when; hi—indeed; rādhā—Rādhā; tadā—then; eva—certainly; kṛṣṇaḥ—Kṛṣṇa; tu—indeed; babhūva—became; bālaḥ—child; vihāya—abandoning; kaiśora—teen-age; vapuḥ—form; svayam—personally; hi—indeed.
English translation of verse 1.16.51:
As Rādhā was about to decorate Him, Lord Kṛṣṇa suddenly abandoned His teen-age form and again became an infant.