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).
Verse 2.18.34
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; kṛṣṇa—O Kṛṣṇa; iti—thus; vākyam—wordw; ataḥ—then; śrutam—heard; me—by Me; sadyaḥ—at once; visṛjya—abandoning; nija—own; gokula—Gokula; gopa-vṛndam—gopas; vaṃśī-vaṭāt—from vaṃśīvāṭa; ca—and; yamunā-nikaṭāt—from the Yamunā's shore; pradhāvan—running; tvat—You; prītaye—for the pleasure; atha—then; 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.