Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.23.33, 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-नारद उवाच
व्याघ्राननं कृष्ण-वर्णं
ताल-वृक्ष-दशोच्छ्रितम्
भयङ्करं ललज्-जिह्वं
दृष्ट्वा गोप्यो ऽपि तत्रसुः

śrī-nārada uvāca
vyāghrānanaṃ kṛṣṇa-varṇaṃ
tāla-vṛkṣa-daśocchritam
bhayaṅkaraṃ lalaj-jihvaṃ
dṛṣṭvā gopyo 'pi tatrasuḥ

śrī-nārada uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; vyāghratiger; ananam—face; kṛṣṇa-varṇam—black complexion; tāla-vṛkṣapalm trees; daśaten; ucchritam—tall; bhayaṅkaram—fearsome; lalat—moving; jihvam—tongue; dṛṣṭvā—seeing; gopyaḥ—the gopīs; api—also; tatrasuḥ—becane afraid.

English translation of verse 2.23.33:

Śrī Nārada said: When the gopīs saw fearsome Śaṅkhacūḍa, who was black, tall as ten palm trees, and who had a tiger's face with a lolling tongue, they became afraid.

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