Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.7.3, 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 7 (The Killing of Kuvalayapida) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

स्वप्ने प्रेतैः समायुक्तस्
तैलाभ्यक्तो दिग्-अम्बरः
जपा-स्राङ् महिसारूढो
दक्षिणाशां जगाम सः

svapne pretaiḥ samāyuktas
tailābhyakto dig-ambaraḥ
japā-srāṅ mahisārūḍho
dakṣiṇāśāṃ jagāma saḥ

svapne—in dreams; pretaiḥ—by ghosts; samāyuktaḥpossessed; tailābhyaktaḥ—anointed with oil; dig-ambaraḥ—naked; japāof roses; srākwearing a garland; mahisārūḍhaḥ—rising on a huffalo; dakṣiṇāśām—to the south; jagāma—went; saḥ—he.

English translation of verse 5.7.3:

Then he dreamed of being attacked by ghosts, of being anointed with oil, of walking about naked, of being garlanded with roses, and of rising south on a buffalo.

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