Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.13.19, 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 13 (The Arrival of Sri Uddhava) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

पतलह् हरितस् तम्र पितह् च्यम विचित्रितह् धुम्रह् कोकिल-वर्नच् च यत्र गवस् त्व् अनेकध

patalah haritas tamra pitah cyama vicitritah dhumrah kokila-varnac ca yatra gavas tv anekadha

patalah—pink; haritah—green; tamrabrown; pitah—yellow; cyama—black; vicitritah—different colors; dhumrah—smokey; kokila-varnah—the color of cuckoos; ca—and; yatrawhere; gavah—cows; tv—indeed; anekadha—many.

English translation of verse 5.13.19:

Some cows were pink, some green, some brown, some multi-colored, some yellow, some smoke-colored, and some the color of cuckoos.

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