Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.13.13, 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).

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

परिकरी-कृत-पीत-पटं हरिं
शिखि-किरीट-नती-कृत-कन्धरम्
लकुट-वेणु-करं चल-कुण्डलं
पटुतरं नट-वेष-धरं भजे

parikarī-kṛta-pīta-paṭaṃ hariṃ
śikhi-kirīṭa-natī-kṛta-kandharam
lakuṭa-veṇu-karaṃ cala-kuṇḍalaṃ
paṭutaraṃ naṭa-veṣa-dharaṃ bhaje

parikarī-kṛta-pīta-paṭam—wearing a yellow sash; harim—Kṛṣṇa; śikhi-kirīṭaa peacock-feather crown; natī-kṛta—graceful; kandharam—shoulders; lakuṭa-veṇu-karam—holding a stick and a flute; cala-kuṇḍalam—with swinging earrings; paṭutaram—very intelligent; naṭa-veṣa-dharam—dressed as a dancer; bhaje—I worship.

English translation of verse 4.13.13:

I worship most intelligent Kṛṣṇa who, with a peacock-feather crown, swinging earrings, a yellow sash about His waist, and a stick and flute in His hand, is dressed as a graceful-shouldered dancer.

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