Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.8.25, 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:

उष्णीशैर् मुकुटैर् दिव्यैः
कुण्डलैर् अलकैर् वृतान्
आनन्द-वर्षान् कुर्वनान्
शरत्-पद्म-दृशैर् अपि

uṣṇīśair mukuṭair divyaiḥ
kuṇḍalair alakair vṛtān
ānanda-varṣān kurvanān
śarat-padma-dṛśair api

uṣṇīśaiḥ—with turbans; mukuṭaiḥ—crowns; divyaiḥ—splendid; kuṇḍalaiḥ—with earrings; alakaiḥ—with curly locks of hair; vṛtān—covered; ānandaof bliss; varṣān—showers; kurvanān—doing; śaratautumn; padmalotus; dṛśaiḥ—with eyes; api—also.

English translation of verse 2.8.25:

. . . turbans, crowns, and splendid earrings, endowed with curly locks of hair, making showers of bliss with the glances of their autumn-lotus eyes, . . .

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