Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.19.22, 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:

तथैव विरजा साक्षाद्
यूथी-भूत्वा समाययौ
हरिद्-वस्त्रा गौर-वर्णा
रत्नालङ्कार-भूषिता

tathaiva virajā sākṣād
yūthī-bhūtvā samāyayau
harid-vastrā gaura-varṇā
ratnālaṅkāra-bhūṣitā

tathā—so; eva—indeed; virajāthe Virajā; sākṣātdirectly; yūthī-bhūtvā—becoming a gopī; samāyayau—came; harid-vastrāin green garments; gaura-varṇāgolden complexion; ratnālaṅkāra-bhūṣitā—decorated with jewels.

English translation of verse 2.19.22:

Then the Virajā river became a golden-complexioned, dressed in green and decorated with jewels leader of a group of gopīs, and she also came there.

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