Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.13.20, 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:

समुद्र-वद् दुग्ध-दच् च तरुनि-कर-चित्रितह् कुरग्ग-वद् विलग्घद्भिर् गो-वत्सैर् मन्दितह् चुभह् समुद्र

samudra-vad dugdha-dac ca taruni-kara-citritah kuragga-vad vilagghadbhir go-vatsair manditah cubhah samudra

vat—like an ocean; dugdha-dah—giving milk; ca—and; taruni-kara-citritah—decorated with girls' handprints; kuragga-vat—like deer; vilagghadbhih—leaping; go-vatsaih—with calves; manditah—decorated; cubhah—beautiful and auspicious.

English translation of verse 5.13.20:

They were decorated with pictures of girls' handprints. They gave milk that was like an ocean. They were decorated with calves leaping like deer.

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