Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.6.26, 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 6 (Seeing Shri Mathura) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.6.26
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
तैर् दृष्टेतेन पथा कृष्णः
प्रविष्टो धनुषः स्थलम्
मैत्रीं कुर्वन् वयस्यैश् च
माथुरैः पुर-बालकैः
tair dṛṣṭetena pathā kṛṣṇaḥ
praviṣṭo dhanuṣaḥ sthalam
maitrīṃ kurvan vayasyaiś ca
māthuraiḥ pura-bālakaiḥ
taiḥ—by them; dṛṣṭetena—showed; pathā—the path; kṛṣṇaḥ—Kṛṣṇa; praviṣṭaḥ—entered; dhanuṣaḥ—of the bow; sthalam—the place; maitrīm—frindship; kurvan—doing; vayasyaiś—with the boys His age; ca—and; māthuraiḥ—residing in Mathurā; pura-bālakaiḥ—the boys of the city.
English translation of verse 5.6.26:
At once becoming friends with these boys, the Lord followed their directions and came to the place of the bow.