Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.10.4, 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:

मुक्ता-गुच्छैर् बर्हि-पिच्छैर्
लसत्-पुच्छाच्छ-केशरः
स्फुरतां नव-रत्नानां
माला-जालैर् विराजितः

muktā-gucchair barhi-picchair
lasat-pucchāccha-keśaraḥ
sphuratāṃ nava-ratnānāṃ
mālā-jālair virājitaḥ

muktāof pearls; gucchaiḥ—with bunches; barhi-picchaiḥ—with peacock feathers; lasat-pucchāccha-keśaraḥsplendid tails; sphuratām—manifested; nava-ratnānām—of nine jewels; mālā-jālaiḥ—with many necklaces; virājitaḥsplendid.

English translation of verse 2.10.4:

Their tails were decorated with peacock feathers and bunches of pearls. They were splendid with necklaces of nine jewels.

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