Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.10.3, 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 10 (Description of Shri Krishna’s Herding the Cows) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

घण्टा-मञ्जीर-झङ्कारं
कुर्वन्त्यस् ता इतस् ततः
किङ्किणी-जाल-सम्युक्ता
हेम-माला-लसद्-गलाः

ghaṇṭā-mañjīra-jhaṅkāraṃ
kurvantyas tā itas tataḥ
kiṅkiṇī-jāla-samyuktā
hema-mālā-lasad-galāḥ

ghaṇṭābells; mañjīraanklets; jhaṅkāram—tinkling; kurvantyaḥ—doing; tā—they; itaḥ—here; tataḥand there; kiṅkiṇīof small bells; jālawith a network; samyuktāḥ—endowed; hemagolden; mālānecklaces; lasatglistening; galāḥ—necks.

English translation of verse 2.10.3:

The cows wore glittering golden necklaces, a network of small bells, and tinkling anklets.

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