Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.8.16, 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 8 (The Killing of Kamsa) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

किरीट-कुण्डल-धरौ
राम-कृष्णौ सहार्भकैः
विहरन्तौ वीक्ष्य रङ्गे
विसिस्मुः पुर-वासिनः

kirīṭa-kuṇḍala-dharau
rāma-kṛṣṇau sahārbhakaiḥ
viharantau vīkṣya raṅge
visismuḥ pura-vāsinaḥ

kirīṭa-kuṇḍala-dharau—wearing crowmns and earrings; rāma-kṛṣṇau—Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma; sahārbhakaiḥ—with the boys; viharantau—playing; vīkṣyaseeing; raṅge—in the arena; visismuḥ—became astonished; pura-vāsinaḥ—the people of Mathurā.

English translation of verse 5.8.16:

As Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, wearing crowns and earrings, played with the gopa boys in the arena, the people of Mathurā gazed at Them and became filled with wonder.

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