Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.5.6, 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 5 of Chapter 5 (Shri Krishna’s Entrance Into Mathura) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

असङ्ख्य-कोटि-मार्तण्ड-
ज्योतिषं मण्डलं प्रभुम्
परिपूर्णतमं साक्षाच्
छ्री-कृष्णं पुरुषोत्तमम्

asaṅkhya-koṭi-mārtaṇḍa-
jyotiṣaṃ maṇḍalaṃ prabhum
paripūrṇatamaṃ sākṣāc
chrī-kṛṣṇaṃ puruṣottamam

asaṅkhya—countless; koṭimillions; mārtaṇḍaof suns; jyotiṣam—effulgence; maṇḍalam—circle; prabhum—the Lord; paripūrṇatamam—the perfect Supreme Personality of Godhead; sākṣāc—directly; śrī-kṛṣṇam—Śrī Kṛṣṇa; puruṣottamam—the Supreme Person.

English translation of verse 5.5.6:

On Śeṣa's lap Akrūra also saw Lord Kṛṣṇa, the perfect Supreme Personality of Godhead, glorious as countless millions of suns, . . .

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