Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.18.30, 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 राधा समुत्थाय
नत्वा श्री-नन्द-नन्दनम्
उपविश्यासने दध्यौ
ध्यान-स्तिमित-लोचना

śrī-nārada uvāca
atha rādhā samutthāya
natvā śrī-nanda-nandanam
upaviśyāsane dadhyau
dhyāna-stimita-locanā

śrī-nārada uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; athathen; rādhāRādhā; samutthāya—rising; natvā—bowing; śrī-nanda-nandanam—the son of Nanda; upaviśya āsane—giving a seat; dadhyau—gave; dhyānain meditation; stimitaclosed; locanāeyes.

English translation of verse 2.18.30:

Śrī Nārada said: Rādhā stood up, bowed before Kṛṣṇa, and gave Him a seat.

Then She closed Her eyes in meditation.

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