Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 3.5.16, 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).

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

वृषभानु-सुता राधा
या जात कीर्ति-मन्दिरे
तस्याः पतिर् अयं साक्षात्
तेन राधा-पतिः स्मृतः

vṛṣabhānu-sutā rādhā
yā jāta kīrti-mandire
tasyāḥ patir ayaṃ sākṣāt
tena rādhā-patiḥ smṛtaḥ

vṛṣabhānu-sutāKing Vṛṣabhānu's daughter; rādhāRādhā; yā—who; jātais born; kīrti-mandire—in Kīrti's palace; tasyāḥ—of Her; patiḥthe Lord; ayamHe; sākṣātdirectly; tena—by Him; rādhā-patiḥ—the Lord of Rādhā; smṛtaḥ—remembered.

English translation of verse 3.5.16:

Because He is the husband (pati) of King Vṛṣabhānu's daughter Rādhā, who was born in the palace of Kīrti-devī, He is also called Rādhā-pati.

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