Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.19.23, 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:

सखी-मुखेभ्यो हरिम् आगतं परं
निशम्य राधा-शयनात् समुत्थिता
ताभ्यः स्व-भूषाः प्रददौ प्रहर्षिता
प्रीता स्व-गन्धिं नव-पद्मिनी यथा

sakhī-mukhebhyo harim āgataṃ paraṃ
niśamya rādhā-śayanāt samutthitā
tābhyaḥ sva-bhūṣāḥ pradadau praharṣitā
prītā sva-gandhiṃ nava-padminī yathā

sakhī-mukhebhyaḥ—from the mouths of Her gopī friends; harim—to Kṛṣṇa; āgatam—come; param—great; niśamya—hearing; rādhāRādhā; śayanāt—from bed; samutthitā—risen; tābhyaḥ—to them; sva-bhūṣāḥown ornaments; pradadau—gave; praharṣitā—happy; prītāpleased; sva-gandhim—own scent; nava-padminīa new lotus; yathā—as.

English translation of verse 5.19.23:

Hearing from Her friends' mouths that Kṛṣṇa had returned, Rādhā at once rose from bed and, pleased with them as a new lotus is pleased with its own sweet fragrance, at once gave them Her own ornaments.

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