Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.25.8, 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 25 (The Rasa-dance Pastime) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).
Verse 2.25.8
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-नारद उवाच
इत्य् उक्तौ तौ मुनि-शिवौ
स्नात्वा मान-सरोवरे
गोपीत्वं प्राप्य सहसा
जग्मतू रास-मण्डले
śrī-nārada uvāca
ity uktau tau muni-śivau
snātvā māna-sarovare
gopītvaṃ prāpya sahasā
jagmatū rāsa-maṇḍale
śrī-nārada uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; ity—thus; uktau—addressed; tau—they; muni-śivau—Asuri Muni and Lord śiva; snātvā—bathing; māna-sarovare—in mana-sarivaras; gopītvam—the status of gopīs; prāpya—attaining; sahasā—at once; jagmatū—went; rāsa-maṇḍale—to the rasa dance circle.
English translation of verse 2.25.8:
Bathing in Māna-sarovara, and at once becoming gopīs, Lord Siva and Asuri Muni went to the circle of the rāsa dance.