Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 3.2.23, 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).
Verse 3.2.23
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
सप्ताहं सु-स्थिरस् तष्ठौ
गोवर्धन-धरो हरिः
श्री-कृष्णचन्द्रं पश्यन्तः
चकोरा इव ते स्थिताः
saptāhaṃ su-sthiras taṣṭhau
govardhana-dharo hariḥ
śrī-kṛṣṇacandraṃ paśyantaḥ
cakorā iva te sthitāḥ
sapta—for seven; aham—days; su-sthiraḥ—steady; taṣṭhau—stood; govardhana-dharaḥ—holding Govardhana Hill; hariḥ—Lord Kṛṣṇa; śrī-kṛṣṇacandram—at Śrī Kṛṣṇacandra; paśyantaḥ—gazing; cakorā—cakora birds; iva—like; te—they; sthitāḥ—stood.
English translation of verse 3.2.23:
For seven days Lord Kṛṣṇa steadily held Govardhana Hill. As if they had become cakora birds, the stunned gopas gazed at Lord Kṛṣṇacandra.