Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.12.19, 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).

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

तन्-मुखं च विलिम्पन्त्यो
ऽथाबीरारुण-मुष्टिभिः
कुङ्कुमाक्त-दृतीभिस् तं
अर्द्री-चक्रुर् विधानतः

tan-mukhaṃ ca vilimpantyo
'thābīrāruṇa-muṣṭibhiḥ
kuṅkumākta-dṛtībhis taṃ
ardrī-cakrur vidhānataḥ

tan-mukham—His face; ca—and; vilimpantyaḥ—anointing; athathen; ābīra-aruṇa-muṣṭibhiḥ—with fists filled with red powder; kuṅkumākta-dṛtībhiḥ—with sprinklers filled with kunbkuma water; tam—Him; ardrī-cakruḥ—sprinkled; vidhānataḥ—accordingly.

English translation of verse 4.12.19:

With fistfulls of red powder they anointed His face. With sprinklers of kuṅuma-water they drenched Him.

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