Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.19.17, 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 19 (A Thousand Names of Sri Yamuna) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).

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

जल-स्थिता च्यामलाग्गि खाण्डवाभा विहारिनि गाण्डि-विभासिनि वन्या श्रि-क्र्स्नम् वरम् इच्छति

jala-sthitā cyāmalāggi khāṇḍavābhā vihārini gāṇḍi-vibhāsini vanyā śri-krsnam varam icchati

. . . stays in the water (jala-sthitā), has dark limbs (cyāmalāggi), is sweet as khāṇḍava-candy (khāṇḍavābhā), is playful (vihārini), spoke to Arjuna (gāṇḍivi-bhāsini), is filled with sacred water (vanyā), desires Lord Krsna as her husband (śri-krsnam varam icchati), . . .

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