Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 3.8.7, 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 8 (The Opulences of Shri Giriraja) of Canto 3 (giriraja-khanda).

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

मौलि-जिह्वा शिला तस्य
ललाटं विद्धि मैथिल
सिरश् चित्र-शिला तस्य
ग्रीवा वै वादनी शिला

mauli-jihvā śilā tasya
lalāṭaṃ viddhi maithila
siraś citra-śilā tasya
grīvā vai vādanī śilā

mauli-jihvāmarked with Kṛṣṇa's crown; śilāstone; tasya—ofit; lalāṭam—the forehead; viddhi—please know; maithilaO king of Mithilā; siraḥ—the head; citra- śilāthe picture stone; tasya—of it; grīvāthe n3eck; vai—indeed; vādanī śilā—the musical stone.

English translation of verse 3.8.7:

O king of Mithilā, please know that the stone marked with Lord Kṛṣṇa's crown (mauli-śilā) is Govardhana Hill's forehead, the stone decorated with pictures (citra-śilā) is its head, and the musical stone (vādanī śilā) is its throat.

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