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).

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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-vṛtaḥaccompanied by the girls of Vraja; tatra—there; gopī-gaṇāḥ—the gopīs; sarve—all; sveda-yuktāḥ—perspiring; tṛṣāwith 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.

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