Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.21.38, 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:

तदैव यूथा सम्प्राप्ता
गोपीनां मैथिलेश्वरा
तद्-रोदनं दुःखतरं
श्रुत्वा जग्मुस् तपातुराः

tadaiva yūthā samprāptā
gopīnāṃ maithileśvarā
tad-rodanaṃ duḥkhataraṃ
śrutvā jagmus tapāturāḥ

tadāthen; eva—indeed; yūthā—group of gopīs; samprāptā—came; gopīnām—of the gopīs; maithileśvarā—O king of Mithilā; tad-rodanam—Her weeping; duḥkhataram—most unhappy; śrutvāhearing; jagmuḥ—went; tapawith unhappiness; āturāh——afflicted.

English translation of verse 2.21.38:

O king of Mithilā, when the gopīs came and heard Rādhā's sorrowful weeping they also became filled with sorrow.

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