Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.8.45, 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:

शर्दूल-बालकैर् यत्र
क्रीडन्ति मृग-बालकः
श्येनैः कपोता नकुलैः
सर्पा वैर-विवर्जिताः

śardūla-bālakair yatra
krīḍanti mṛga-bālakaḥ
śyenaiḥ kapotā nakulaiḥ
sarpā vaira-vivarjitāḥ

śardūlatiger; bālakaiḥ—with cubs; yatrawhere; krīḍanti—play; mṛga-bālakaḥ—fawns; syenaiḥ—with eagles; kapotāḥ—doves; nakulaiḥ—with mongeese; sarpāsnakes; vairaenmity; vivarjitāḥ—without.

English translation of verse 2.8.45:

. . . where without any enmity fawns play with tiger cubs, doves play with eagles, and snakes play with mongeese.

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