Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.18.1, 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 18 (The Sight of Shri Krishnacandra) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

श्री-नारद उवाच
अथ रात्र्यां व्यतीतायां
माया-योषिद्-वपुर् हरिः
राधा-दुःख-प्रशान्त्य्-अर्थं
वृषभानोर् गृहं ययौ

śrī-nārada uvāca
atha rātryāṃ vyatītāyāṃ
māyā-yoṣid-vapur hariḥ
rādhā-duḥkha-praśānty-arthaṃ
vṛṣabhānor gṛhaṃ yayau

śrī-nāradaḥ uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; athathen; rātryām—at night; vyatītāyām—passed; māyā-yoṣid-vapuḥtrasnformed into a young woman; hariḥ—Kṛṣṇa; rādhāof Rādhā; duḥkhato sufferings; praśānti—pacification; arthamfor the purpose; vṛṣabhānoḥ—of King Vṛṣabhānu; gṛham—to the home; yayau—went.

English translation of verse 2.18.1:

Śrī Nārada said: When the night had passed, Lord Kṛṣṇa, again magically transformed into a woman, went to King Vṛṣabhānu's palace to quiet Rādhā's distress.

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