Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.19.14, 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 19 (The Rasa-dance Pastime) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

काश्चिद् गोलोक-वासिन्यः
काश्चिच् छाय्योपकारिकाः
शृङ्गार-प्रकराः काश्चित्
काश्चिद् वै द्वार-पालिकाः

kāścid goloka-vāsinyaḥ
kāścic chāyyopakārikāḥ
śṛṅgāra-prakarāḥ kāścit
kāścid vai dvāra-pālikāḥ

kāścit—some; goloka-vāsinyaḥ—of the girls living in Gokula; kāścic—some; śaāyya—beds; upakārikāḥarranging; śṛṅgāra-prakarāḥ—decorators; kāścit—some; kāścit—some; vai—indeed; dvāra-pālikāḥ—guarding the entrances.

English translation of verse 2.19.14:

Some of the gopīs were residents of Goloka, some arranged the couches, some made decorations, some guarded the entrances, . . .

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