Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.21.6, 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 21 (Lord Krsna Extinguishes the Forest Fire and Reveals Himself to the Brahmana’s Wives) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).

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

एवम् पित्वा महा-वह्निम् नित्वा गोपाल-गो-गनम् प्राप्तो ऽभुद् यमुना-पारे चुभाचोक-वने हरिः

evam pitvā mahā-vahnim nitvā gopāla-go-ganam prāpto 'bhud yamunā-pāre cubhācoka-vane hariḥ

evam—thus; pitvā—having drunk; mahā-vahnim—the great fire; nitvā—bringing; gopāla-go-ganamthe gopsas and cows; prāptaḥ—attained; abhut—was; yamunā-pāre—on the other shore of thr Yamunā; cubha—beautiful; acoka—of asoka trees; vane—in the forest; hariḥ—Lord Krsna.

English translation of verse 4.21.6:

After drinking up the great fire, Lord Krsna took the cows and gopas to a beautiful acoka forest on the Yamunā's farther shore.

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