Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.8.3, 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 8 (In the Story of the Yajna-sitas, the Glories of Ekadashi) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).
Verse 4.8.3
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
धनवन्तस् तत्र गोपा
अनावृष्टि-भयातुराः
स-कुटुम्बा गो-धनैश् च
व्रज-मण्डलम् आययुः
dhanavantas tatra gopā
anāvṛṣṭi-bhayāturāḥ
sa-kuṭumbā go-dhanaiś ca
vraja-maṇḍalam āyayuḥ
dhanavantaḥ—wealthy; tatra—there; gopā—gopas; anāvṛṣṭi-bhayāturāḥ—fearful of the lack of rain; sa-kuṭumbā—with families; go-dhanaiḥ—with cows; ca—and; vraja-maṇḍalam—to the circle of Vraja; āyayuḥ—came.
English translation of verse 4.8.3:
Fearful that it would never rain, the wealthy gopas there traveled, with their families and cows, to the circle of Vraja.