Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.13.22, 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:

गोपल वेत्र-हस्तच् च च्यम-वम्चि-धरह् परह् क्र्स्न-लिलह् प्रगयन्तो रगैर् मदन-मोहनैह्

gopala vetra-hastac ca cyama-vamci-dharah parah krsna-lilah pragayanto ragair madana-mohanaih

gopalagopas; vetra-hastah—with stick in hand; ca—and; cyama-vamci-dharah—holding black flutes; parah—great; krsnaof Lord Krsna; lilah—pastimes; pragayantah—singing; ragaih—with ragas; madana-mohanaih—charming Kamadeva.

English translation of verse 5.13.22:

There were many gopas playing black flutes and, with melodies that could charm Kamadeva himself, singing of Lord Krsna's pastimes

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