Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.8.11, 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 8 (Description of Seeing Lord Krishna) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

अनेकानां तु बालानां
उद्वाहाः कृष्ण-रूपिणम्
बभूवुस् ताः व्रजे वध्वो
रताः कृष्णे तु कोटिशः

anekānāṃ tu bālānāṃ
udvāhāḥ kṛṣṇa-rūpiṇam
babhūvus tāḥ vraje vadhvo
ratāḥ kṛṣṇe tu koṭiśaḥ

anekānām—many; tu—indeed; bālānām—of boys; udvāhāḥ—weddings; kṛṣṇaKṛṣṇa; rūpiṇam—the forms; babhūvuḥ—were; tāḥ—they; vraje—in Vraja; vadhvaḥ—the girls; ratāḥ—in love; kṛṣṇe—with Kṛṣṇa; tu—indeed; koṭiśaḥ—millions.

English translation of verse 2.8.11:

Then the millions of gopī girls, who were all deeply in love with Kṛṣṇa, were married to the many gopa boys, who at that time were all forms of Kṛṣṇa.

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