Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.24.10, 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 24 (The Story of Asuri Muni in the Rasa-dance Pastime) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

काश्चित् प्रौढाः प्रेम-पराः
श्री-कृष्णे लग्न-मानसाः
जरा-धर्मेण गोविन्दं
काश्चिद् गोप्यो भजन्ति हि

kāścit prauḍhāḥ prema-parāḥ
śrī-kṛṣṇe lagna-mānasāḥ
jarā-dharmeṇa govindaṃ
kāścid gopyo bhajanti hi

kāścit—some; prauḍhāḥagressive and independent; prema-parāḥfilled with love; śrī-kṛṣṇe—to Śrī Kṛṣṇa; lagnaattached; mānasāḥ—whose hearts; jarā-dharmeṇa—with the relationship of a paramour; govindam—Kṛṣṇa; kāścit—some; gopyaḥ—gopīs; bhajanti—worshiped; hi—indeed.

English translation of verse 2.24.10:

Some were agressive and independent, some were passionately in love, their hearts attached to Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and some worshiped Kṛṣṇa as their paramour.

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