Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 1.17.29, 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 1.17.29
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
शिक्य-स्थं गोरसं दृष्ट्वा
हस्ताग्राह्यं हरिः स्वयम्
उलूखले पीठके च
गोपान् स्थाप्यारुरोह तम्
śikya-sthaṃ gorasaṃ dṛṣṭvā
hastāgrāhyaṃ hariḥ svayam
ulūkhale pīṭhake ca
gopān sthāpyāruroha tam
śikya-stham—suspended on ropes; gorasam—yogurt; dṛṣṭvā—seeing; hasta-with a hand; agrāhyam—not graspable; hariḥ—Lord Hari; svayam—personally; ulūkhale—on a grinding-mortar; pīṭhake—footstool; ca—and; gopān—the gopas; sthāpya—placing; āruroha—climbed; tam—that.
English translation of verse 1.17.29:
Seeing the yogurt was in a jug hanging on ropes beyond His hand's reach, by arranging a footstool, a grinding mortar, and the gopa boys, Lord Hari climbed up to it.