Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.8.26, 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:

कोटि-कन्दर्प-लावण्यान्
नास-मौतिक-शोभितान्
सिख-भूषण-सम्युक्तान्
पाणि-भूषन-भूषितान्

koṭi-kandarpa-lāvaṇyān
nāsa-mautika-śobhitān
sikha-bhūṣaṇa-samyuktān
pāṇi-bhūṣana-bhūṣitān

koṭimillions; kandarpaof Kāmadevas; lāvaṇyān—handsome; nāsanose; mautika—pearl; śobhitān——decorated; śikhā-bhūṣaṇa-samyuktān—with ornaments on top of the head; pāṇi-bhūṣana-bhūṣitān—decorated with ornaments on Their hands.

English translation of verse 2.8.26:

. . . more handsome than millions of Kāmadevas, their noses decorated with pearls and their heads and hands decorated with many ornaments, . . .

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