Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.12.13, 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 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-नारद उवाच
अथ मानवती राधा
मानं त्यक्त्वा समुत्थिता
सखी-सङ्घैः परिवृता
प्रकर्तुं होलिकोत्सवम्

śrī-nārada uvāca
atha mānavatī rādhā
mānaṃ tyaktvā samutthitā
sakhī-saṅghaiḥ parivṛtā
prakartuṃ holikotsavam

śrī-nārada uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; athathen; mānavatī—filled with jealous anger; rādhāRādhā; mānam—jealous anger; tyaktvāabandoning; samutthitā—risen; sakhī-saṅghaiḥ—with Her friends; parivṛtā—surrounded; prakartum—to do; holikotsavam—to Holi festival.

English translation of verse 4.12.13:

Śrī Nārada said: Then angry Rādhā put aside Her jealous anger, stood up, and, accompanied by Her friends, went to celebrate the Holi festival.

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