Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.19.18, 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).
Verse 2.19.18
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
तथैव यमुना साक्षाद्
यूथी-भूत्वा समाययौ
नीलाम्बरा रत्न-भूषा
श्यामा कमल-लोचना
tathaiva yamunā sākṣād
yūthī-bhūtvā samāyayau
nīlāmbarā ratna-bhūṣā
śyāmā kamala-locanā
tathā—so; eva—indeed; yamunā—the Yamunā; sākṣāt—directly; yūthī-bhūtvā—becoming a gopī; samāyayau—came; nīlāmbarā—in blue garments; ratna-bhūṣā—decorated with jewels; śyāmā—dark; kamala—lotus; locanā—eyes.
English translation of verse 2.19.18:
Then the Yamunā became a dark-complexioned, lotus-eyed, dressed in blue and decorated with jewels leader of a group of gopīs, and came there.