Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.15.21, 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 15 (Seeing Sri Radha) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

रधम् हि गोविन्द-वियोग-खिन्नम् कुह्वम् यथ चन्द्र-कलम् तदोद्धवह् नतम् क्र्चग्गिम् क्र्त-हस्त-सम्पुतह् प्रदक्सिनि-क्र्त्य जगद हर्सितह्

radham hi govinda-viyoga-khinnam kuhvam yatha candra-kalam tadoddhavah natam krcaggim krta-hasta-samputah pradaksini-krtya jagada harsitah

radham—to Radha; hi—indeed; govinda-viyoga-khinnam—sufdfering in Krsna's separation; kuhvam—on the new moon; yatha—as; candra-kalamthe crescent moon; tadathen; uddhavah—Uddhava; natam—bowing down; krcaggim—slender; krta-hasta-samputah—with folded hands; pradaksini-krtyacircumambulating; jagada—spoke; harsitah—joyful.

English translation of verse 5.15.21:

Radha, tormented in separation from Lord Krsna, and now slender as the new moon, bowed before Uddhava. With folded hands Uddhava circumambulated Her and cheerfully spoke.

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