Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.14.43, 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 14 (The Meeting of King Nanda and Uddhava) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

गोवर्धनम् समुत्पत्य हस्तेनैकेन लिलय युस्मकम् पच्यतम् बिभ्रत् पुस्करम् गज-रद् इव

govardhanam samutpatya hastenaikena lilaya yusmakam pacyatam bibhrat puskaram gaja-rad iva

govardhanam—Govardhana Hill; samutpatya—lifting; hastena ekena—with one hand; lilaya—playfully; yusmakam—of you; pacyatam—looking; bibhrat—holding; puskaram—a lotus; gaja-rad—the king of elephants; iva—like As you all watched, He playfully lifted Govardhana Hill as the king of elephants lifts a lotus flower.

English translation of verse 5.14.43:

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