Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.23.30, 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:

श्री-राधयालङ्कृत-वाम-बाहुं
स्वच्छन्द-वक्री-कृत-दक्षिणाङ्घ्रिम्
वंशी-धरं सुन्दर-मान्द-हासं
भ्रू-मण्डलैर् मोहित-काम-राशिम्

śrī-rādhayālaṅkṛta-vāma-bāhuṃ
svacchanda-vakrī-kṛta-dakṣiṇāṅghrim
vaṃśī-dharaṃ sundara-mānda-hāsaṃ
bhrū-maṇḍalair mohita-kāma-rāśim

śrī-rādhayā—by Śrī Rādhā; alaṅkṛtadecorated; vāmaleft; bāhum—arm; svacchandaas He wished; vakrī-kṛtacrooked; dakṣiṇaleft; aṅghrim—foot; vaṃśī-dharam—holding a flute; sundara-mānda-hāsam—with a handsome smile; bhrū-maṇḍalaiḥ—with the eyebrows; mohitabewildering; kāmaof Kāmadevas; rāśim—many multitudes.

English translation of verse 2.23.30:

. . . whose left arm was decorated by Śrī Rādhā, whose left foot was playfully tilted, who held a flute, who had a handsome and gentle smile, whose eyebrows bewildered many multitudes of Kāmadevas, . . .

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