Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.16.3, 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 16 (The Sri Yamuna Armor) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).
Verse 4.16.3
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
क्र्स्नाम् चतुर्-भुजाम् च्यामाम् पुण्डरीक-दलेक्सनाम् रथ-स्थाम् सुन्दरीम् ध्यात्वा धारयेत् कवचम् ततः
krsnām catur-bhujām cyāmām puṇḍarīka-daleksanām ratha-sthām sundarīm dhyātvā dhārayet kavacam tataḥ
krsnām—dark; catur-bhujām—four arms; cyāmām—dark; puṇḍarīka-daleksanām—with lotus petal eyes; ratha-sthām—seated on a chariot; sundarīm—beautiful; dhyātvā—meditsting; dhārayet—should meditate; kavacam—kavaca; tataḥ—then.
English translation of verse 4.16.3:
One should meditate on dark, four-armed, beautiful, lotus-petal-eyed Yamunā, who is seated on a chariot. Then one should meditate on the Yamunā-kavaca.