Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.6.44, 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).

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

अङ्गे ह्य् अङ्गे सुन्दरे नन्द-सूनोः
प्राप्तं प्राप्तं यत्र यत्रापि नेत्रम्
तस्मात् तस्मान् नामवल् लब्ध-सौख्यं
लावण्याब्धौ मग्नवल् लग्न-चित्तम्

aṅge hy aṅge sundare nanda-sūnoḥ
prāptaṃ prāptaṃ yatra yatrāpi netram
tasmāt tasmān nāmaval labdha-saukhyaṃ
lāvaṇyābdhau magnaval lagna-cittam

aṅge—on limb; hy—indeed; aṅge—after limb; sundare—handsome; nanda-sūnoḥ—of Nanda's son; prāptam—attained; prāptam—attained; yatrawhere; yatra—where; api—also; netram—eye; tasmāt—from that; tasmān—from that; nāmaval—like the name; labdha-saukhyam—attained happiness; lāvaṇyābdhau—in an ocean of handsomeness; magnaval—as if plunged; lagnaplaced; cittam—mind.

English translation of verse 5.6.44:

As our eyes gaze on each of Śrī Kṛṣṇa's limbs we become filled with bliss and our thoughts become plunged in the ocean of His handsomess.

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