Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.12.14, 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:

श्रीखण्डागुरु-कस्तूरी-
हरिद्र-कुङ्कुम-द्रवैः
पूरिताभिर् दृतीभिश् च
सम्युक्तास् ता व्रजाङ्गनाः

śrīkhaṇḍāguru-kastūrī-
haridra-kuṅkuma-dravaiḥ
pūritābhir dṛtībhiś ca
samyuktās tā vrajāṅganāḥ

śrīkhaṇḍasandal; aguruaguru; kastūrīmusk; haridraturmeric; kuṅkumakunkuma; dravaiḥ—liquid; pūritābhiḥ—filled; dṛtībhiḥ—with sprinklers; ca—and; samyuktāḥ—endowed; tā—they; vrajāṅganāḥ—the girls of Vraja.

English translation of verse 4.12.14:

The girls of Vraja carried sprinklers filled with water mixed with sandal, aguru, musk, yellow turmeric, and red kuṅkuma.

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