Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.16.4, 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).

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

वियोग-सिन्धु-सम्मग्नम् रधम् कमल-लोचनम् विक्स्योद्धवस् ततह् गोप्यो मुमुचुच् चच्रु-सन्ततिम्

viyoga-sindhu-sammagnam radham kamala-locanam viksyoddhavas tatah gopyo mumucuc cacru-santatim

viyogaof separataion; sindhuinto an ocean; sammagnam—plunged; radham—Radha; kamala-locanam—lotus-eyed; viksyaseeing; uddhavah—Uddhava; tatah—then; gopyah—the gopis; mumucuh—shed; ca—and; acru-santatim—many tears.

English translation of verse 5.16.4:

Seeing lotus-eyed Radha drowning in an ocean of despair by Lord Krsna's absence, Uddhava and the gopis shed many tears.

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