Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.10.18, 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 10 (The Stories of the Washerman, Weaver, and Florist) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.10.18
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-नारद उवाच
राज-राज-वनं रम्यं
नाम्ना चैत्ररथं शुभम्
तस्य वै पुष्प-बटुको
हेममालीति-नाम-भाक्
śrī-nārada uvāca
rāja-rāja-vanaṃ ramyaṃ
nāmnā caitrarathaṃ śubham
tasya vai puṣpa-baṭuko
hemamālīti-nāma-bhāk
śrī-nārada uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; rāja-rāja-vanam—the forest of Kuvera; ramyam—beautriful; nāmnā——by name; caitraratham—Caitraratha; śubham—glorious; tasya—of that; vai—indeed; puṣpa-baṭukaḥ—a puspa-batuka; hemamālī—Hemamali; iti—thus; nāma-bhāk—named.
English translation of verse 5.10.18:
In Kuvera's beautiful Caitraratha gardens there was a florist named Hemamālī.