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).
Verse 4.12.19
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; atha—then; 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.