Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.2.9, 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 2 (Description of Giriraja Govardhana’s Birth) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

वेद-नाग-क्रोश-ब्बूमिः
सापि चात्र समागता
चतुर्-विंशद्-वनैर् युक्ता
सर्व-लोकैश् च वन्दिता

veda-nāga-krośa-bbūmiḥ
sāpi cātra samāgatā
catur-viṃśad-vanair yuktā
sarva-lokaiś ca vanditā

veda-nāga-krośa-bbūmiḥ—a land of 47 krośas; sā—that; api—also; ca—and; atra—here; samāgatā—come; catur-viṃśat—24; vanaiḥ—forests; yuktāwith; sarva-lokaiś—by all the worlds; ca—and; vanditā—worshiped.

English translation of verse 2.2.9:

Worshiped by all the worlds and filled with 24 forests, that land of Vṛndāvana has now come to the earth.

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