Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.19.15, 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:

पार्षदाख्याः सखी-जनास्
छत्र-चामर-पाणयः
पुष्पाभरण-कारिण्यः
श्री-वृन्दावन-पालिकाः

pārṣadākhyāḥ sakhī-janās
chatra-cāmara-pāṇayaḥ
puṣpābharaṇa-kāriṇyaḥ
śrī-vṛndāvana-pālikāḥ

pārṣadā-ākhyāḥcalled associates; sakhī-janāḥgopī friends; chatra-cāmara-pāṇayaḥ—holding parasols and camaras in their hands; puṣpaflower; ābharaṇaornaments; kāriṇyaḥ—in their hands; śrī-vṛndāvana-pālikāḥ—protectors of Śrī Vṛndāvana.

English translation of verse 2.19.15:

. . . some were Rādhā's associates and friends, some carried parasols, cāmaras, and flower decorations in their hands, some were protectors of Vṛndāvana forest, . . .

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