Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.6.19, 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 6 (Seeing Shri Mathura) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.6.19
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-नारद उवाच
तदैव गोपा जहसुः परस्परं
अहो किम् एतत् कर-ताल-निःस्वनैः
प्रहस्य रामस्य हरिः प्रपश्यतस्
तद् याच्यमानो ह्य् अवदत् परं वचः
śrī-nārada uvāca
tadaiva gopā jahasuḥ parasparaṃ
aho kim etat kara-tāla-niḥsvanaiḥ
prahasya rāmasya hariḥ prapaśyatas
tad yācyamāno hy avadat paraṃ vacaḥ
śrī-nārada uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; tadā—then; eva—indeed; gopā—the gopas; jahasuḥ—laughed; parasparam—among themselves; ahaḥ—Oh; kim—what?; etat—this; kara-tāla-niḥsvanaiḥ—with clapping of hands; prahasya—laughing; rāmasya—of Balarāma; hariḥ—Kṛṣṇa; prapaśyataḥ—looking on; tat—that; yācyamānaḥ—being requested; hy—indeed; avadat—said; param—then; vacaḥ—words.
English translation of verse 5.6.19:
Śrī Nārada said: Then the gopas burst into laughter and clapped their hands.
Lord Kṛṣṇa smiled and, as Balarāma looked on, spoke the following words.