Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verses 2.20.31-32, 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).

Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:

चम्पकोद्यत्-परिकरः
स्वर्ण-यूथी-भुजाङ्गदः
सहस्र-दल-राजीव-
कर्णिका-विलसच्-छ्रुतिः
मोहिनी-मालिनी-कुन्द-
केतकी-हार-भृद् धरिः

campakodyat-parikaraḥ
svarṇa-yūthī-bhujāṅgadaḥ
sahasra-dala-rājīva-
karṇikā-vilasac-chrutiḥ
mohinī-mālinī-kunda-
ketakī-hāra-bhṛd dhariḥ

campakacampaka; udyat—blossoming; parikaraḥbelt; svarṇa-yūthīsvarnayuthi; bhujāṅgadaḥ—armlets; sahasra-dala-rājīvathousand petal lotus; karṇikāwhorl; vilasatsplendid; śrutiḥears; mohinīmohini; mālinīmalini; kundakunda; ketakīand ketaki; hāragarland; bhṛt—wearing; hariḥ—Kṛṣṇa.

English translation of verses 2.20.31-32:

In this way Lord Kṛṣṇa' belt was decorated with campaka flowers, and His armlets with svarṇa-yūthī flowers. He wore a garland of mohinī, mālinī, kunda, and ketakī flowers. His ears were made splendid with the whorls of thousand-petal lotuses.

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