Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.22.11, 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 22 (The Rasa-dance Pastime) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

श्री-नारद उवाच
इत्थं राजन् रुदन्तीनां
गोपीनां कमलेक्षणः
आविर्बभूव सहसा
स्वयम् अर्थम् इवात्मनः

śrī-nārada uvāca
itthaṃ rājan rudantīnāṃ
gopīnāṃ kamalekṣaṇaḥ
āvirbabhūva sahasā
svayam artham ivātmanaḥ

śrī-nārada uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; ittham—thus; rājanO king; rudantīnām—weeping; gopīnām—of the gopīs; kamalalotus; īkṣaṇaḥ—eyes; āvirbabhūva—became manifested; sahasāsuddenly; svayam—personally; arthambenefit; iva—as if; ātmanaḥ—of the self.

English translation of verse 2.22.11:

Śrī Nārada said: O king, as the gopīs wept, lotus-eyed Kṛṣṇa suddenly appeared, as if to fulfill their desire.

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