Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.3.13, 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 3 (The Story of the Mithila Women) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).
Verse 4.3.13
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-नारद उवाच
तदा ता निर्गताः सर्वा
जलाद् गोप्यो ऽति-वेपिताः
आनता योनिम् अच्छाद्य
पाणिभ्यां शीत-कर्षिताः
śrī-nārada uvāca
tadā tā nirgatāḥ sarvā
jalād gopyo 'ti-vepitāḥ
ānatā yonim acchādya
pāṇibhyāṃ śīta-karṣitāḥ
śrī-nārada uvāca—Srī Nārada said; tadā—then; tā—they; nirgatāḥ—went; sarvā—all; jalāt—from the water; gopyaḥ—the gopīs; ati-vepitāḥ—trembling; ānatā—with bowed heads; yonim—the pubic area; acchādya—covering; pāṇibhyām—with both hands; śīta-karṣitāḥ—tormented by the cold.
English translation of verse 4.3.13:
Srī Nārada said: Shivering with the cold, bowing their heads, and covering their pubic areas with both hands, all the gopīs emerged from the water.