Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.15.25, 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-ललितोवाच
यस्मिन् दिने च ते रूपं
राधया दृष्टम् अद्भुतम्
तद्-दिनात् स्तम्भतां प्राप्ता
पुत्रिकेव न वाक्ति किम्

śrī-lalitovāca
yasmin dine ca te rūpaṃ
rādhayā dṛṣṭam adbhutam
tad-dināt stambhatāṃ prāptā
putrikeva na vākti kim

śrī-lalitā uvāca—Śrī Lalitā said; yasminin which; dine—day; ca—and; te—of You; rūpam—the form; rādhayā—by Rādhā; dṛṣṭam—seen; adbhutam—wonderful; tad-dināt—from that day; stambhatām—the state of being stunned; prāptā—attained; putrikāa puppet; iva—like; na—not; vākti—speaks; kim—why?

English translation of verse 2.15.25:

Śrī Lalitā said: Since the day She first saw Your wonderful form, Rādhā has been stunned. She is like a motionless puppet. She does not even speak.

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