Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.23.29, 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 23 (The Killing of Shankhacuda During the Rasa-dance Pastime) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

ताल-शब्दानुसारेण
सम्प्राप्तौ रास-मण्डले
रासेश्वर्या समं रासे
ऽपश्यद् रासेश्वरं हरिम्

tāla-śabdānusāreṇa
samprāptau rāsa-maṇḍale
rāseśvaryā samaṃ rāse
'paśyad rāseśvaraṃ harim

tālaof the karatālas; śabdathe sound; anusāreṇa—following; samprāptau—attained; rāsa-maṇḍale—the circle of the rasa dance; rāseśvaryā—the queen of the rasa dance; samamwith; rāse—in the rasa dance; apaśyat—saw; rāseśvaram—the king of the rasa dance; harim—Lord Kṛṣṇa.

English translation of verse 2.23.29:

Following the sounds of the karatālas, they came to the rāsa-dance circle, where they saw Śrī Rādhā, the queen of the rāsa dance, and Lord Kṛṣṇa, the king of the rāsa dance, . . .

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