Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.1.30, 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).

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

तत् साक्षाद् अक्षय-वटः
कृतो लीलातपत्रवत्
मुनि-भानु-सुते ऽथोर्मि-
चामरैस् तं विरेजतुः

tat sākṣād akṣaya-vaṭaḥ
kṛto līlātapatravat
muni-bhānu-sute 'thormi-
cāmarais taṃ virejatuḥ

tat—that; sākṣātdirectly; akṣayaimperishable; vaṭaḥbanyan tree; kṛtaḥmade; līlātoy; atapatraparasol; vat—like; muniof a sage; bhānuof the sun-god; sute—the daughters; athathen; ūrmiof waves; cāmaraiḥ—with cāmaras; tam—him; virejatuḥ—served.

English translation of verse 2.1.30:

As if it were a toy parasol, an eternal banyan tree shaded Prayāga. The Ganges and Yamunā fanned it with cāmaras.

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