Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.20.23, 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 20 (The Rasa-dance Pastime) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).
Verse 2.20.23
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
रास-मण्डलम् आरेभे
गायन् व्रज-वधू-वृतः
तत्र गोपी-गणाः सर्वे
स्वेद-युक्तास् तृषातुराः
rāsa-maṇḍalam ārebhe
gāyan vraja-vadhū-vṛtaḥ
tatra gopī-gaṇāḥ sarve
sveda-yuktās tṛṣāturāḥ
rāsa-maṇḍalam—the rasa dance circle; ārebhe—began; gāyan—singing; vraja-vadhū-vṛtaḥ—accompanied by the girls of Vraja; tatra—there; gopī-gaṇāḥ—the gopīs; sarve—all; sveda-yuktāḥ—perspiring; tṛṣā—with thirst; āturāḥ—afflicted.
English translation of verse 2.20.23:
Singing, the Lord formed a rāsa-dance circle with the girls of Vraja. Then the gopīs began to perspire. They were tortured with thirst.