Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.1.1, 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 4 of Chapter 1 (The Story of the Personified Vedas) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).
Verse 4.1.1
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
असती-कुसुमोपमेय-कान्तिर्
यमुना-कूल-कदम्ब-मध्य-वर्ती
नव-गोप-वधू-विलास-शाली
वन-माली वितनोतु मङ्गलानि
asatī-kusumopameya-kāntir
yamunā-kūla-kadamba-madhya-vartī
nava-gopa-vadhū-vilāsa-śālī
vana-mālī vitanotu maṅgalāni
asatī-kusuma—and asati flower; upameya—like; kāntiḥ—glory; yamunā-kūla-kadamba-madhya-vartī—staying on the Yamunā's shore; nava-gopa-vadhū—with the young gopīs; vilāsa-śālī—pastimes; vana-mālī—a forest garland; vitanotu—may grant; maṅgalāni—auspiciousness.
English translation of verse 4.1.1:
Glorious as an atasi flower, garlanded with forest flowers, and enjoying pastimes with the youthful gopīs in a kadamba forest by the Yamunā's shore, may Lord Kṛṣṇa grant auspiciousness to us.