Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.17.14, 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:

केतकी-मालती-वृन्दैर्
माधवीभिर् विराजितम्
तत्र राधा-निकुञ्जो ऽस्ति
कल्प-वृक्ष-सुगन्धि-भृत्

ketakī-mālatī-vṛndair
mādhavībhir virājitam
tatra rādhā-nikuñjo 'sti
kalpa-vṛkṣa-sugandhi-bhṛt

ketakīketaki; mālatīmalati; vṛndaiḥ—with many; mādhavībhiḥ—madhavi vines; virājitam—splendid; tatra—there; rādhāof Śrī Rādhā; nikuñjaḥ—the garden; astiis; kalpa-vṛkṣawith kalpavṛkṣa trees; sugandhi-bhṛt—fragrant.

English translation of verse 2.17.14:

. . . and splendid with many ketakī, mālatī, and mādhavī vines. In that place was Śrī Rādhā's garden, which was fragrant with many kalpa-vṛkṣa trees, . . .

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