Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.16.8, 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:

स्रि-रधोवच अनन्द-दम् स्रि-व्रज-रज-नन्दनम् द्रक्स्यमि कस्मिन् समये घन-प्रभम् घनम् मयुरिव समुत्सुक भ्र्चम् चन्द्रम् चकोरिव तद्-इक्सनोत्सुक स्रि-रध

sri-radhovaca ananda-dam sri-vraja-raja-nandanam draksyami kasmin samaye ghana-prabham ghanam mayuriva samutsuka bhrcam candram cakoriva tad-iksanotsuka sri-radha

uvaca—Sri Radha said; ananda-dam—giving bliss; sri-vraja-raja-nandanam—the prince of Vraja; draksyami—I will see; kasmin—at what; samaye—time; ghana-prabham—splendid as a monsoon cloud; ghanam—a cloud; mayuria peacock; iva—like; samutsukaeager; bhrcam—greatly; candram—the moon; cakori—a cakori bird; iva—like; tad-iksanotsuka—eager to see.

English translation of verse 5.16.8:

Sri Radha said: When will I see Vraja's delightful prince splendid as a monsoon cloud? I yearn to see Him as a peacock yearns to see a monsoon cloud or a cakori bird yearns to see the moon.

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