Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.19.11, 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 19 (The Festival on Shri Krishna Return) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

अन्यो न चास्मिन् हि गवां प्रहर्षणैर्
आयाति किन्तु व्रज-राज-नन्दनः
स्फुरन्ति चाङ्गानि हि दक्षिणानि नः
श्री-नीलकण्ठः प्रतनोति तोरणम्

anyo na cāsmin hi gavāṃ praharṣaṇair
āyāti kintu vraja-rāja-nandanaḥ
sphuranti cāṅgāni hi dakṣiṇāni naḥ
śrī-nīlakaṇṭhaḥ pratanoti toraṇam

anyaḥanother; na—not; ca—and; asmin—in this; hi—indeed; gavām—of cows; praharṣaṇaiḥ—with the joys; āyātigoes; kintu—however; vraja-rāja-nandanaḥthe prince of Vraja; sphurantitrembles; ca—and; aṅgāni—the limbs; hi—indeed; dakṣiṇāni—right; naḥ—of us; śrī-nīlakaṇṭhaḥ—the peacock; pratanoti—extends; toraṇam—arched gateway.

English translation of verse 5.19.11:

This is none other than Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the prince of Vraja, that has come. The cows are filled with happiness. Our bodies tremble on the left side, an auspicious sign.

The peacock has made an arch for Kṛṣṇa to pass under.

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