Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.14.2, 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 14 (The Story of the Jalandharis) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).

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

राजन् सप्त-नदी-तीरे
रङ्ग-पट्टनम् उत्तमम्
सर्व-सम्पद्-युतं दीर्घं
योजन-द्वय-वर्तुलम्

rājan sapta-nadī-tīre
raṅga-paṭṭanam uttamam
sarva-sampad-yutaṃ dīrghaṃ
yojana-dvaya-vartulam

rājanO king; sapta-nadī-tīre—on the shore of seven rivers; raṅga-paṭṭanam—Ranga-pattana; uttamam—great; sarva-sampatall opulences; yutam—with; dīrgham—large; yojana-dvaya-vartulam—sixteen miles in circumference.

English translation of verse 4.14.2:

O king, on the shore of seven rivers there was a great city named Raṅga-paṭṭana. Sixteen miles around, it was filled with all opulences.

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