Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 3.7.12, 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 7 (The Holy Places of Shri Giriraja) of Canto 3 (giriraja-khanda).
Verse 3.7.12
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
यत्र श्री-कृष्णचन्द्रेण
गोपालैः सह मैथिल
कृत वै कन्दुक-क्रीडा
तत्-क्षेत्रं कन्दुकं स्मृतम्
yatra śrī-kṛṣṇacandreṇa
gopālaiḥ saha maithila
kṛta vai kanduka-krīḍā
tat-kṣetraṃ kandukaṃ smṛtam
yatra—where; śrī-kṛṣṇacandreṇa—by Śrī Kṛṣṇa; gopālaiḥ—with the gopas; saha—with; maithila—O king of Mithilā; kṛta—done; vai—indeed; kanduka—of ball; krīḍā—a game; tat-kṣetram—that field; kandukam—the ball; smṛtam—remembered.
English translation of verse 3.7.12:
The place where Kṛṣṇacandra played ball-games with the boys is called kanduka-kṣetra (the ballgame-field).