Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 3.4.8, 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 3 of Chapter 4 (The Coronation-Bathing of Shri Krishna) of Canto 3 (giriraja-khanda).
Verse 3.4.8
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
अथ गोवर्धने रम्ये
सुरभिर् गौः समुद्र-जा
स्नापयाम् आस गोपेशं
दुग्ध-धाराभिर् आत्मनः
atha govardhane ramye
surabhir gauḥ samudra-jā
snāpayām āsa gopeśaṃ
dugdha-dhārābhir ātmanaḥ
atha—then; govardhane—on Govardhana Hill; ramye—beautiful; surabhiḥ—surabhi; gauḥ—cow; samudra-jā—born from the ocean of milk; snāpayām āsa—bathed; gopa—of the gopas; īśam—the king; dugdha-dhārābhiḥ—with streams of milk; ātmanaḥ—own.
English translation of verse 3.4.8:
Then, on beautiful Govardhana Hill, the surabhi cow born from the milk-ocean bathed the gopa-king Kṛṣṇa with great streams of milk.