Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.19.28, 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:

यमुना-पुलिनं पुण्यं
आययौ राधया युतः
गृहीत्वा हस्त-पद्मेन
पद्माभं स्व-प्रिया-करम्

yamunā-pulinaṃ puṇyaṃ
āyayau rādhayā yutaḥ
gṛhītvā hasta-padmena
padmābhaṃ sva-priyā-karam

yamunā-pulinam—the Yamunā's shore; puṇyam—sacred; āyayau—came; rādhayā—with Rādhā; yutaḥ—with; gṛhītvātaking; hasta—hand; padmena—lotus; padmābham—glorious as a lotus; sva-priyā-karam—His beloved's hand.

English translation of verse 2.19.28:

Taking His beloved Rādhā's lotus hand in His lotus hand, Lord Kṛṣṇa went to the Yamunā's sacred shore.

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