Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.17.41, 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:

भगवांस् तु बहिर् वीथ्यां
भूत्वा श्री-नन्द-नन्दनः
प्रहसन् गोपिकां प्राह
धृष्टाङ्गश् चञ्चलेक्षणः

bhagavāṃs tu bahir vīthyāṃ
bhūtvā śrī-nanda-nandanaḥ
prahasan gopikāṃ prāha
dhṛṣṭāṅgaś cañcalekṣaṇaḥ

bhagavānthe Lord; tu—certainly; bahiḥoutside; vīthyām—on the path; bhūtvā—becoming; śrī-nanda-nandanaḥ—the son of Nanda; prahasan—laughing; gopikām—to a gopī; prāha—said; dhṛṣṭāṅgaḥ—bold; cañcalarestless; īkṣaṇaḥ—eyes.

English translation of verse 1.17.41:

On the path outside again becoming Nanda's son, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, smiling, confident, and His eyes restless, spoke to the gopī Prabhāvatī.

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