Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.5.16, 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).
Verse 5.5.16
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
पुरस्योपवने तत्र
वीक्ष्य नन्दं यदूत्तमः
अक्रूरं प्राह विहसन्
मेघ-गम्भीरया गिरा
purasyopavane tatra
vīkṣya nandaṃ yadūttamaḥ
akrūraṃ prāha vihasan
megha-gambhīrayā girā
purasya—of ther city; upavane—in the gardens; tatra—there; vīkṣya—seeing; nandam—Nanda; yadūttamaḥ—the best of the Yādavas; akrūram—to Akrūra; prāha—said; vihasan—smiling; megha-gambhīrayā—like thunder; girā—with words.
English translation of verse 5.5.16:
When He saw Nanda there in Mathurā's gardens, Lord Kṛṣṇa smiled and spoke to Akrūra with words like thunder.