Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.8.17, 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).
Verse 2.8.17
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
तदागता समिपे तु
पुत्राणां गोप-नायकाः
स्वान् स्वान् सुतांस् तदोन्नीया
ह्य् अङ्के कृत्वा मिलन्ति वै
tadāgatā samipe tu
putrāṇāṃ gopa-nāyakāḥ
svān svān sutāṃs tadonnīyā
hy aṅke kṛtvā milanti vai
tadā—then; āgatāḥ—come; samipe—near; tu—indeed; putrāṇām—of sons; gopa-nāyakāḥ—the gopa men; svān svān—own; sutāṃḥ—sons; tadā—then; unnīyā—placing; hi—indeed; aṅke—on the lap; kṛtvā—doing; milanti—meet; vai—indeed.
English translation of verse 2.8.17:
Meeting them, the gopa men immediately placed their sons on their laps.