Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.17.38, 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:

जन-लज्जा-समायुक्ता
दूरी-कृत्य मुखाम्बरम्
सापि प्राह निजं बालं
वीक्ष्य विस्मित-मानसा

jana-lajjā-samāyuktā
dūrī-kṛtya mukhāmbaram
sāpi prāha nijaṃ bālaṃ
vīkṣya vismita-mānasā

janaof the people; lajjāembarrassment; samāyuktāwith; dūrī-kṛtyaput far away; mukhaface; ambaram—cloth; sā—she; api—also; prāha—said; nijam—to her own; bālam—boy; vīkṣyalooking; vismitasurprised; mānasāheart.

English translation of verse 1.17.38:

Ashamed of what people might think, she took the cloth from His face. Seeing her own son, she was surprised at heart and said:

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