Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.21.25, 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 21 (The Rasa-dance Pastime) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

केतु-पद्मातपत्रैश् च
यवेनाथोर्ध्व-रेखाया
चक्र-चन्द्रार्धाङ्कुशकैर्
बिन्दुभिः शोभितानि च

ketu-padmātapatraiś ca
yavenāthordhva-rekhāyā
cakra-candrārdhāṅkuśakair
bindubhiḥ śobhitāni ca

ketuflag; padmalotus; atapatraiḥ—parasol; ca—and; yavena—barleycorn; athathen; ūrdhva-rekhayā—urdhva-rekha line; cakracakra; candrārdhahalf-moon; aṅkuśakaiḥ—elephant-goad; bindubhiḥ—bindus; śobhitāni—beautiful; ca—and.

English translation of verse 2.21.25:

. . . marked with a flag, lotus, parasol, barleycorn, ūrdhva-rekhā line, cakra, half-moon, elephant-goad, many bindus, . . .

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