Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.22.26, 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).
Verse 2.22.26
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-नारद उवाच
तथास्तु चोक्त्वा भगवान्
गोपी-व्यूहस्य पश्यतः
दधाराष्ट-भुजं रूपं
श्री-राधा-रूपम् एव च
śrī-nārada uvāca
tathāstu coktvā bhagavān
gopī-vyūhasya paśyataḥ
dadhārāṣṭa-bhujaṃ rūpaṃ
śrī-rādhā-rūpam eva ca
śrī-nāradaḥ uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; tathā—so; astu—be it; coktvā—saying; bhagavān—the Lord; gopī-vyūhasya—of the gopīs; paśyataḥ—looking; dadhāra—manifested; aṣṭa-bhujam—eight-armed; rūpam—form; śrī-rādhā-rūpam—the form of Śrī Rādhā; eva—indeed; ca—and.
English translation of verse 2.22.26:
Śrī Nārada said: The Lord said, "So be it." Then, as the gopīs watched, Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa changed Themselves into eight-armed forms of Lakṣmī and Nārāyaṇa.