Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.5.26, 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 5.5.26
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
कालिन्दीं रत्न-सोपानैश्
चलद्-ऊर्मि-कुतूहलैः
अलकाम् इव शोभाढ्यां
दिव्य-नारी-नरैर् युतम्
kālindīṃ ratna-sopānaiś
calad-ūrmi-kutūhalaiḥ
alakām iva śobhāḍhyāṃ
divya-nārī-narair yutam
kālindīm—the Yamunā; ratna—with jewel; sopānaiś—stairs; calad-ūrmi-kutūhalaiḥ—with turbulent waves; alakām—locks of hair; iva—like; śobhāḍhyām—beautiful; divya-nārī-naraiḥ—beauitful men and women; yutam—with.
English translation of verse 5.5.26:
. . . which was filled with handsome men and beautiful women, and decorated with jewel staircases leading down to the Yamunā's turbulent waves splendid as black locks of hair.