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).

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-kusumaand asati flower; upameyalike; kāntiḥglory; yamunā-kūla-kadamba-madhya-vartīstaying on the Yamunā's shore; nava-gopa-vadhūwith the young gopīs; vilāsa-śālīpastimes; vana-mālīa 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.

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