Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.9.57, 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 9 (Brahma’s Prayers) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

गो-वत्सकैः सित-सितासित-पीत-वर्णै
रक्तादि-धूम्र-हरितैर् बहु-शील-रूपैः
गोपाल-मण्डल-गतं व्रज-पाल-पुत्रं
वन्दे वनात् सुखद-गोष्ठकम् आव्रजन्तम्

go-vatsakaiḥ sita-sitāsita-pīta-varṇai
raktādi-dhūmra-haritair bahu-śīla-rūpaiḥ
gopāla-maṇḍala-gataṃ vraja-pāla-putraṃ
vande vanāt sukhada-goṣṭhakam āvrajantam

go-vatsakaiḥ—with the calves; sitawhite; sitāsita—black; pītayellow; varṇaiḥ—with colors; raktared; ādi—beginning; dhūmrasmokey; haritaiḥ—green; bahu-śīla-rūpaiḥ—with many different forms and natures; gopāla-maṇḍala-gatam—gone to the circle of gopas; vraja-pālaof the king of Vraja; putram—to the son; vande—I bow down; vanāt—from the forest; sukhadablissful; goṣṭhakam—to the gopa village; āvrajantam—returning.

English translation of verse 2.9.57:

As, encircled by gopas and by calves of many different forms and natures and of many colors beginning with white, black, yellow, red, green, and smokey, He returns from the forest to the blissful village of gopas, I bow down before Lord Kṛṣṇa, the prince of Vraja.

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