Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.16.1, 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 16 (Comforting Sri Radha and the Gopis) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.16.1
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
रध पत्रम् सग्ग्र्हित्व चिरो नेत्रे तथ च ह्र्त् निधय वचयित्व तत् स्म्र्त्व तत्-पद-पग्कजम् रधरध;
radha patram saggrhitva ciro netre tatha ca hrt nidhaya vacayitva tat smrtva tat-pada-pagkajam radhaRadha;
patram—the letter; saggrhitva—taking; cirah—head; netre—eyes; tatha—so; ca—and; hrt—heart; nidhaya—placing; vacayitva—reading; tat—taht; smrtva—remembering; tat-pada-pagkajam—His lotus feet.
English translation of verse 5.16.1:
Taking the letter, placing it over Her head, eyes, and heart, and remembering Krsna's lotus feet, Radha read the letter aloud.