Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.25.33, 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 25 (The Rasa-dance Pastime) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

अथ कृष्णो रास-लीलां
चक्रे पद्माकरे वने
पतत्-सुगन्धि-रजसि
गोपीभिर् भ्रमराकुले

atha kṛṣṇo rāsa-līlāṃ
cakre padmākare vane
patat-sugandhi-rajasi
gopībhir bhramarākule

athathen; kṛṣṇaḥLord Kṛṣṇa; rāsa-līlām—rasa dance pastime; cakre—did; padmākare—in Padmākara; vane—forest; patat-sugandhi-rajasifilled with fragrant pollen; gopībhiḥ—with the gopīs; bhramara-ākule—filled with bees.

English translation of verse 2.25.33:

Then Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa enjoyed a rāsa dance with the gopīs in Padmākara forest, which was filled with buzzing bees and fragrant flower pollen.

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