Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.13.8, 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 13 (The Story of the Demigoddesses) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).
Verse 4.13.8
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
अर्धोदये ऽर्के यमुनां
नित्यं स्नात्वा व्रजाङ्गनाः
उच्चैर् जगुः कृष्ण-लीलां
प्रेमानन्द-समाकुलाः
ardhodaye 'rke yamunāṃ
nityaṃ snātvā vrajāṅganāḥ
uccair jaguḥ kṛṣṇa-līlāṃ
premānanda-samākulāḥ
ardhodaye—half-risen; arke—when the sun was; yamunām—in the Yamunā; nityam—regularly; snātvā—bathing; vrajāṅganāḥ—the girls ofVraja; uccaiḥ—loudly; jaguḥ—sang; kṛṣṇa-līlām—of Kṛṣṇa's pastimes; premānanda-samākulāḥ—overcome with love.
English translation of verse 4.13.8:
As they bathed at sunrise in the Yamunā, these girls of Vraja, who had fallen in love with Kṛṣṇa, every day loudly sang of Lord Kṛṣṇa's pastimes.