Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.18.13, 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 18 (Uddhava Hears the Gopis’ Words and Returns to Mathura) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

पीतत्वं त्वग्-गता पादौ
शैथिल्यं प्रगतौ च नः
मनो विभ्रमताम् उग्रं
माधवे माधवं विना

pītatvaṃ tvag-gatā pādau
śaithilyaṃ pragatau ca naḥ
mano vibhramatām ugraṃ
mādhave mādhavaṃ vinā

pītatvam—yellowness; tvak-skin; gatā—attained; pādau—feet; śaithilyam—slackness; pragatau—attauined; ca—and; naḥ—of us; manaḥthe mind; vibhramatām—bewilderment; ugram—terrible; mādhave—in the springtime; mādhavam—Kṛṣṇa; vināwithout.

English translation of verse 5.18.13:

In Kṛṣṇa's absence our skin has turned yellow, our steps are unsteady, and our thoughts disoriented.

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