Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.19.33, 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 2.19.33
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
वृक्ष-पार्श्वे हस्त-मात्राद्
इतश् चेतश् च धावती
तमालो हेम-वल्ल्य् एव
घनश् चञ्चलया यथा
vṛkṣa-pārśve hasta-mātrād
itaś cetaś ca dhāvatī
tamālo hema-vally eva
ghanaś cañcalayā yathā
vṛkṣa—of a tree; pārśve—by the side; hasta-mātrāt—only a hand away; itaḥ—here; ca—and; itaḥ—there; ca—and; dhāvatī—running; tamālaḥ—a tamala tree; hema—gold; vallī—vine; eva—indeed; ghanaḥ—a monsoon cloud; ca 24calayā—with lightning; yathā—as.
English translation of verse 2.19.33:
Only a hand away, She ran among the trees. They were like a tamāla tree and a golden vine or a monsoon cloud and a lightning flash.