Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.15.8, 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 15 (Description of Shri Radha-Krishna’s Falling in Love) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

एकदा मुख्य-सख्यौ द्वे
विशाखा-ललिते शुभे
वृषभानोर् गृहं प्राप्य
तं राधां जग्मतू रहः

ekadā mukhya-sakhyau dve
viśākhā-lalite śubhe
vṛṣabhānor gṛhaṃ prāpya
taṃ rādhāṃ jagmatū rahaḥ

ekadāone day; mukhya-sakhyau—the two most important friends; dve—two; viśākhā-lalite—Viśākhā and Lalitā; śubhe—beautioful; vṛṣabhānoḥ—of King Vṛṣabhānu; gṛham—to the home; prāpyaattaining; tam—to Her; rādhām—Rādhā; jagmatū—wnet; rahaḥ—in private.

English translation of verse 2.15.8:

One day Her two most intimate friends, beautiful Lalitā and Viśākhā, went to Mahārāja Vṛṣabhānu's palace and approached Rādhā in private.

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