Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.4.3, 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 4 (The Liberation of Vatsasura) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

गोभिश् च शकटैर् युक्तो
वृद्धैर् बालैस् तथानुगैः
गायकैर् गीयमानैश् च
शङ्ख-दुन्दुभि-निःस्वनैः

gobhiś ca śakaṭair yukto
vṛddhair bālais tathānugaiḥ
gāyakair gīyamānaiś ca
śaṅkha-dundubhi-niḥsvanaiḥ

gobhiḥcows; ca—and; śakaṭaiḥ—carts; yuktaḥengaged; vṛddhaiḥ—with elder; bālaiḥ—boys; tathā—so; anugaiḥ—following; gāyakaiḥ—with singers; gīyamānaiḥ—singing; ca—and; śaṅkha-dundubhi-niḥsvanaiḥ—with sounds of śaṅkhas and dundubhis.

English translation of verse 2.4.3:

. . . with many cows, carts, adults followed by children, musicians playing śaṅkhas and dundubhis, . . .

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