Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.12.8, 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 12 (The Story of the Gopis That In the Holi Festival Displayed Three Transcendental Virtues) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).

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

श्री-यौवनोन्मद-विघूर्णित-लोचनो ऽसौ
नीलालकालि-कलितांस-कपोल-गोलः
सत्-पीत-कञ्चुक-घनान्तम् अशेष्म् आराद्
आचालयन् ध्वनि-मता स्व-पदारुणेन

śrī-yauvanonmada-vighūrṇita-locano 'sau
nīlālakāli-kalitāṃsa-kapola-golaḥ
sat-pīta-kañcuka-ghanāntam aśeṣm ārād
ācālayan dhvani-matā sva-padāruṇena

śrī-yauvana-by youthfulness; unmadaintoxication; vighūrṇita—rolling; locanaḥeyes; asau—He; nīlālakāli—dark locks of hair; kalitāṃsa—on His shoulders; kapola-golaḥand cheeks; sat-pīta-kañcuka-ghanāntam—the edge of the yellow garment; aśeṣam—all; ārāt—near; acālayan—moving; dhvani-matāsound; sva-padā—with His foot; aruṇena—red.

English translation of verse 4.12.8:

His eyes rolling in the intoxication of glorious youth, His black locks resting on His cheeks and shoulders covered with a yellow shawl, He walks here, the anklets tinkling on His reddish feet.

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