Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.18.34, 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:

आगच्छ कृष्ण इति वाक्यम् अतः श्रुतं मे
सद्यो विसृज्य निज-गोकुल-गोप-वृन्दम्
वंशी-वटाच् च यमुना-निकटात् प्रधावंस्
त्वत्-प्रीतये ऽथ ललने ऽत्र समागतो ऽस्मि

āgaccha kṛṣṇa iti vākyam ataḥ śrutaṃ me
sadyo visṛjya nija-gokula-gopa-vṛndam
vaṃśī-vaṭāc ca yamunā-nikaṭāt pradhāvaṃs
tvat-prītaye 'tha lalane 'tra samāgato 'smi

āgaccha—come; kṛṣṇaO Kṛṣṇa; iti—thus; vākyam—wordw; ataḥ—then; śrutam—heard; me—by Me; sadyaḥat once; visṛjyaabandoning; nijaown; gokulaGokula; gopa-vṛndam—gopas; vaṃśī-vaṭāt—from vaṃśīvāṭa; ca—and; yamunā-nikaṭāt—from the Yamunā's shore; pradhāvan—running; tvatYou; prītaye—for the pleasure; athathen; lalane—O beautiful one; atra—here; samāgataḥ—come; asmi—I am.

English translation of verse 2.18.34:

When I heard You say, "O Kṛṣṇa, please come", I at once left the gopas at Vaṃśīvāṭa by the Yamunā's shore and ran here to please You. O beautiful one, I have come.

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