Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.17.14, 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).

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

अथ व्रजे राम-कृष्णौ
बाल-सिंहावलोकनौ
पद्भ्यां चलन्तौ घोषेषु
वर्धमानौ बभूवतुः

atha vraje rāma-kṛṣṇau
bāla-siṃhāvalokanau
padbhyāṃ calantau ghoṣeṣu
vardhamānau babhūvatuḥ

athathen; vraje—in Vraja; rāmaBalarāma; kṛṣṇau—and Kṛṣṇa; bāla-siṃhalion cubs; avalokanau—glance; padbhyām—with their feet; calantau—walking; ghoṣeṣu—in the cowherds' homes; vardhamānau—growing; babhūvatuḥ—became.

English translation of verse 1.17.14:

Now walking on their two feet among the gopas's homes, and their glances like those of a lion's cub, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma grew in the village of Vraja.

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