Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.12.21, 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 4.12.21
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
राधया सुशुभे तत्र
होलिकाया महोत्सवे
वर्षासन्ध्याक्षने कृष्णः
सौदमिन्या घनो यथा
rādhayā suśubhe tatra
holikāyā mahotsave
varṣāsandhyākṣane kṛṣṇaḥ
saudaminyā ghano yathā
rādhayā—with Rādhā; suśubhe—shone; tatra—there; holikāyā—of Holi; mahotsave—in the great festival; varṣāsandhyākṣane—during a rainfall; kṛṣṇaḥ—Kṛṣṇa; saudaminyā—with lightning; ghanaḥ—a cloud; yathā—as.
English translation of verse 4.12.21:
As a cloud touched by lightning in the rain, so Kṛṣṇa was splendidly manifest with Rādhā in the Holi festival.