Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.7.14, 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 7 (Kidnapping of the Calves and Cowherd Boys) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

कुसुमैर् अङ्कुरैः केचित्
पल्लवैश् च दलैः फलैः
हस्तैर् दृशद्भिः शिग्भिश् च
जक्षुस् ते कृत-भाजनाः

kusumair aṅkuraiḥ kecit
pallavaiś ca dalaiḥ phalaiḥ
hastair dṛśadbhiḥ śigbhiś ca
jakṣus te kṛta-bhājanāḥ

kusumaiḥ—with flowers; aṅkuraiḥ—with grass; kecit—some; pallavaiḥ—with twigs; ca—and; dalaiḥ—with leaves; phalaiḥ—with fruits; hastaiḥ—with hands; dṛśadbhiḥ—with stones; śigbhiḥ—with rope; ca—and; jakṣuḥ—ate; te—they; kṛtahaving made; bhājanāḥ—dishes.

English translation of verse 2.7.14:

Making lunch-trays out of flowers, grass, twigs, leaves, fruit, rocks, rope, or their hands, the boys ate.

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