Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.3.1, 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 3 (Description of the Yamuna’s Arrival) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

श्री-सन्नन्द उवाच
गोलोके हरिणाज्ञाप्ता
कालिन्दी सरितां वरा
कृष्णं प्रदक्षिणी-कृत्य
गन्तुम् अभ्युद्यताभवत्

śrī-sannanda uvāca
goloke hariṇājñāptā
kālindī saritāṃ varā
kṛṣṇaṃ pradakṣiṇī-kṛtya
gantum abhyudyatābhavat

śrī-sannandaḥ uvāca—Śrī Sannanda said; goloke—in Goloka; hariṇā—by Lord Hari; jñāptā—informed; kālindīYamunā; saritām—of rivers; varāthe best; kṛṣṇam—Lord Kṛṣṇa; pradakṣinī-kṛtyacircumambulating; gantum—to go; abhyudyataabout; abhavat—became.

English translation of verse 2.3.1:

Śrī Sannanda said: Ordered by Lord Kṛṣṇa in Goloka, Yamunā, the best of rivers, circumambulated the Lord and was about to go (to the earth).

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