Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.1.5, 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 2 of Chapter 1 (Description of the Entrance in Vrindavana) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).
Verse 2.1.5
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-नारद उवाच
तेषां श्रुत्वाथ सन्नन्दो
गोपो वृद्धो ऽति-मन्त्र-वित्
अङ्के नीत्वा राम-कृष्णौ
नन्द-राजम् उवाच ह
śrī-nārada uvāca
teṣāṃ śrutvātha sannando
gopo vṛddho 'ti-mantra-vit
aṅke nītvā rāma-kṛṣṇau
nanda-rājam uvāca ha
śrī-nārada uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; teṣām—of them; śrutvā—hearing; atha—then; sannandaḥ—Sannanda; gopaḥ—gopa; vṛddhaḥ—elder; ati-mantra-vit—learned in giving good advice; aṅke—on the lap; nītvā—placing; rāma-kṛṣṇau—Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma; nanda-rājam—to King Nanda; uvāca—said; ha—indeed.
English translation of verse 2.1.5:
Śrī Nārada said: Hearing this, the elderly gopa Sannanda, who was expert at giving advice, placed Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma on his lap and spoke to King Nanda.