Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 1.17.6, 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 17 (Description of the Yogurt Theft) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).
Verse 1.17.6
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
जानु-द्वयाभ्यां च समं कराभ्यां
पुनर् व्रजन् प्रङ्गनम् एत्य कृष्णः
मात्र्-अङ्क-देशे पुनर् आव्रजन् सन्
बभौ व्रजे केशरि-बाल-लीलः
jānu-dvayābhyāṃ ca samaṃ karābhyāṃ
punar vrajan praṅganam etya kṛṣṇaḥ
mātr-aṅka-deśe punar āvrajan san
babhau vraje keśari-bāla-līlaḥ
jānu-dvayābhyām—both knees; ca—and; samam—with; karābhyām—both hands; punaḥ—again; vrajan—going; praṅganam—to the courtyard; etya—going; kṛṣṇaḥ—Kṛṣṇa; mātṛ—of His mother; aṅka-deśe—on the lap; punaḥ—again; āvrajan—returning; san—being so; babhau—was splendidly manifested; vraje—in Vraja; keśari—lion; bāla—cub; līlaḥ—pastimes.
English translation of verse 1.17.6:
On His hands and knees crawling first to the courtyard and then to His mother's lap, Kṛṣṇa was like a lion cub splendidly playing in Vraja.