Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.16.15, 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:

सहस्र-दल-पद्मे द्वे दत्ते चन्द्रमस पुर उद्धवय ददौ रध प्रसन्न भक्त-वत्सल सहस्र-दल

sahasra-dala-padme dve datte candramasa pura uddhavaya dadau radha prasanna bhakta-vatsala sahasra-dala

padme—thousand petal lotuses; dve—two; datte—placed; candramasaby moonlight; purabefore; uddhavaya—to uddhava; dadau—gave; radhaRadha; prasannasatisfied; bhakta-vatsalaaffectionate to the devotees.

English translation of verse 5.16.15:

Then Radha, who is kind to the devotees, happily gave Uddhava two thousand-petal lotuses that had also been created by moonlight.

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