Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 3.2.4, 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 3 of Chapter 2 (The Great Festival of Shri Giriraja) of Canto 3 (giriraja-khanda).

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

इन्द्रगोप-निभाः केचित्
केचित् कर्पूरवत्-प्रभाः
नाना-विधाश् च ये मेघा
नील-पङ्कज-सु-प्रभाः

indragopa-nibhāḥ kecit
kecit karpūravat-prabhāḥ
nānā-vidhāś ca ye meghā
nīla-paṅkaja-su-prabhāḥ

indragopa-nibhāḥ—the color of an indrgopa insect; kecit—some; kecit—some; karpūravat-prabhāḥ—the color of camphor; nānāvarious; vidhāḥ—kinds; ca—and; ye—which; meghāclouds; nīla-paṅkaja-su-prabhāḥ—the color of a blue lotus.

English translation of verse 3.2.4:

. . . some the color of an indragopa insect, some the color of camphor, and some the color of blue lotuses.

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