Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.12.17, 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).
Verse 4.12.17
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
कोटिशः कोटिशस् तत्र
स्फुरन्त्य् आबीर-मुष्टयः
सु-गन्धारुण-चूर्णानां
कोटिशः कोटिशस् तथा
koṭiśaḥ koṭiśas tatra
sphuranty ābīra-muṣṭayaḥ
su-gandhāruṇa-cūrṇānāṃ
koṭiśaḥ koṭiśas tathā
koṭiśaḥ koṭiśaḥ—millions and millions; tatra—there; sphuranty—manifested; ābīra-muṣṭayaḥ—red fists; su-gandha—fragrant; aruṇa-cūrṇānām—red powder; koṭiśaḥ koṭiśaḥ—millions and millions; tathā—so.
English translation of verse 4.12.17:
There were millions and millions of reddish fists. Millions and millions of times they threw fragrant red powder.