Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.15.12, 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:

श्री-नारद उवाच
अथ सख्यौ व्यलिखतां
चित्रं नन्द-शिशोः शुभम्
नव-यौवन-माधुर्यं
राधायै ददतुस् त्वरम्

śrī-nārada uvāca
atha sakhyau vyalikhatāṃ
citraṃ nanda-śiśoḥ śubham
nava-yauvana-mādhuryaṃ
rādhāyai dadatus tvaram

śrī-nārada uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; athathen; sakhyau—the two friends; vyalikhatām—drew; citram—a picture; nandaof Nanda; śiśoḥ—of the son; śubham—handsome; nava-yauvana-mādhuryam—sweet with new youth; rādhāyai—to Rādhā; dadatuḥ—gave; tvaram—at once.

English translation of verse 2.15.12:

The two friends drew a picture, handsome and filled with the sweetness of new youth, of Nanda's son, Kṛṣṇa, and gave it to Rādhā.

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