Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.15.24, 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:

माधवी-जाल-सम्युक्ते
मधुर-ध्वनि-सङ्कुले
कदम्ब-मूले रहसि
प्राह चैकाकिनं हरिम्

mādhavī-jāla-samyukte
madhura-dhvani-saṅkule
kadamba-mūle rahasi
prāha caikākinaṃ harim

mādhavīof madhavi vines; jālawith a network; samyukte—endowed; madhura-dhvani-saṅkule—filled with sweet sounds; kadamba-mūle—at the root of a kadamba tree; rahasi—in a secluded place; prāha—said; ca—and; ekākinam—all alone; harim—to Kṛṣṇa.

English translation of verse 2.15.24:

Finding Kṛṣṇa all alone under a kadamba tree in a solitary place laced with a network of flowering mādhavī vines and filled with sweet sounds, Lalitā spoke.

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