Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.12.26, 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 12 (Subduing Kaliya and Drinking the Forest Fire) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

जलाद् विनिर्गतं कृष्णं
दृष्ट्वा मुमुदिरे जनाः
आश्लिष्य स्व-सुतं नन्दः
परां मुदम् अवाप ह

jalād vinirgataṃ kṛṣṇaṃ
dṛṣṭvā mumudire janāḥ
āśliṣya sva-sutaṃ nandaḥ
parāṃ mudam avāpa ha

jalāt—from the water; vinirgatam—emerged; kṛṣṇam—Kṛṣṇa; dṛṣṭvāseeing; mumudire—rejoiced; janāḥ—the people; āśliṣya—embracing; sva-sutam—his son; nandaḥNanda; parām—supreme; mudam—happiness; avāpaattained; ha—certainly.

English translation of verse 2.12.26:

Seeing Kṛṣṇa emerge from the water, the people rejoiced. As he embraced his son, Nanda attained the highest bliss.

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