Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 3.5.13, 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 5 (The Dispute Among the Gopas) of Canto 3 (giriraja-khanda).
Verse 3.5.13
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
शुक्लो रक्तस् तथा पीतो
वर्णो ऽस्यानु-युगं धृतः
द्वापरान्ते कलेर् आदौ
बालो ऽयं कृष्णतां गतः
śuklo raktas tathā pīto
varṇo 'syānu-yugaṃ dhṛtaḥ
dvāparānte kaler ādau
bālo 'yaṃ kṛṣṇatāṃ gataḥ
śuklaḥ—white; raktaḥ—red; tathā—so; pītaḥ—yellow; varṇaḥ—colors; asya—of Him; anu-yugam—in each yuga; dhṛtaḥ—held; dvāparānte—at the end of Dvapara-yuag; kaleḥ—of kali-yuga; ādau—at the beginning; bālaḥ—boy; ayam—this; kṛṣṇatām—the state of being dark-complexioned Kṛṣṇa; gataḥ—attains.
English translation of verse 3.5.13:
In the other yugas He is white, red, or yellow, but at the end of Dvāpara-yuga and the beginning of Kali-yuga, this boy becomes dark-complexioned (kṛṣṇa).