Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.19.53, 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:

निलाभा निल-पद्माढ्या निलाम्भोरुह-वासिनि नागवल्लि नागपुरि नागवल्लि-दलार्चिता

nilābhā nila-padmāḍhyā nilāmbhoruha-vāsini nāgavalli nāgapuri nāgavalli-dalārcitā

. . . has a dark complexion (nilābhā), is splendid with blue lotuses (nila-padmāḍhyā), is the home of many blue lotuses (nilāmbhoruha-vāsini), nourishes many betelnut plants (nāgavalli), became the home of the Kāliya serpent (nāgapuri), is worshiped with betelnut leaves (nāgavalli-dalārcitā), . . .

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