Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.17.11, 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 17 (The Meeting of Shri Radha-Krishna) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

यत्र कोटि-रवि-स्फुर्जत्-
कपाट-स्तम्भ-पङ्क्तयः
रत्नाजिरेषु शोभन्ते
ललना-रत्न-सम्युताः

yatra koṭi-ravi-sphurjat-
kapāṭa-stambha-paṅktayaḥ
ratnājireṣu śobhante
lalanā-ratna-samyutāḥ

yatrawhere; koṭiten million; ravisuns; sphurjat—shining; kapāṭadoors; stambhaof pillars; paṅktayaḥ—rows; ratnajewel; ajireṣu—in courtyards; śobhante—shine; lalanāwomen; ratna—jewels; samyutāḥ—with.

English translation of verse 2.17.11:

. . . where there were many columns and doors splendid as ten million suns, where there were jewel courtyards in which many jewellike women glistened, . . .

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