Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.3.29, 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 5 of Chapter 3 (Akrura’s Arrival) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.3.29
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
काश्चित् परिम्लान-मुख-श्रियो ऽभवन्
प्रकङ्कनी-भूत-कराङ्गुलीयकाः
सद्यः श्लथद्-भूषण-केश-बान्धनास्
चित्रार्पितारम्भा इवावतस्थिरे
kāścit parimlāna-mukha-śriyo 'bhavan
prakaṅkanī-bhūta-karāṅgulīyakāḥ
sadyaḥ ślathad-bhūṣaṇa-keśa-bāndhanās
citrārpitārambhā ivāvatasthire
kāścit—some; parimlāna—withered; mukha—of the face; śriyaḥ—the beauty; abhavan—became; prakaṅkanī-bhūta—become brcaelets; karāṅgulīyakāḥ—finger-rings; sadyaḥ—at once; ślathat—loosened; bhūṣaṇa—ornaments; keśa—of the hair; bāndhanāḥ—tying; citrārpitārambhāḥ—painted pictures; iva—like; āvatasthire—stood.
English translation of verse 5.3.29:
Some gopīs, the beauty of their faces suddenly withered away, the rings slipping like bracelets from their suddenly emaciated fingers, their ornaments falling, and their hair dishevelled, were stunned and motionless as if they were painted pictures.