Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.7.24, 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 7 (The Story of the Ayodhya Women) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).

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

तदैव कृष्ण-सारूप्यं
प्राप्तो ऽनङ्ग-स्फुरद्-द्युतिः
शत-सूर्य-प्रतीकाशो
द्योतयन् मण्डलं दिशम्

tadaiva kṛṣṇa-sārūpyaṃ
prāpto 'naṅga-sphurad-dyutiḥ
śata-sūrya-pratīkāśo
dyotayan maṇḍalaṃ diśam

tadāthen; eva—indeed; kṛṣṇa-sārūpyam—a spiritual form like Lord Kṛṣṇa's; prāptaḥ—attained; anaṅga-sphurad-dyutiḥ—splendid as Kāmadeva; śatahundred; sūryasuns; pratīkāśaḥ—splendid; dyotayan—illuminating; maṇḍalam diśam—the circle of the directions.

English translation of verse 4.7.24:

Then King Vimala attained a spiritual form like Lord Kṛṣṇa's. Glorious as Kāmadeva, and splendid as a hundred suns, the king illuminated the circle of the directions.

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