Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.19.31, 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:

विलोक्य शाखान्तरितं
राधा जग्राह माधवम्
राधा दुद्राव तद्-धस्ताज्
झङ्कारं कुर्वती पदे

vilokya śākhāntaritaṃ
rādhā jagrāha mādhavam
rādhā dudrāva tad-dhastāj
jhaṅkāraṃ kurvatī pade

vilokyaseeing; śākha-antaritam—in the trees; rādhāRādhā; jagrāha—grabbed; mādhavam—Kṛṣṇa; rādhā—Rādhā; dudrāva—ran; tad-dhastāt—from His hand; jhaṅkāram—tinkling; kurvatī—doing; pade—with Her feet.

English translation of verse 2.19.31:

Seeing Him hiding among the trees, Rādhā captured Kṛṣṇa. Then Rādhā slipped from His hand and ran away, Her anklets tinkling.

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