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).
Verse 2.23.33
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; vyāghra—tiger; ananam—face; kṛṣṇa-varṇam—black complexion; tāla-vṛkṣa—palm trees; daśa—ten; 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.