Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.20.4, 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 20 (The Liberation of Ribhu Muni During the Rasa-dance Festival) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.20.4
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
स्फार-स्फुरन्-मेघ-गृहं
रम्भा-चन्दन-चर्चितम्
कृष्णा-मरुत्-सीकरं च
सुधारश्मि-गलत्-सुधाम्
sphāra-sphuran-megha-gṛhaṃ
rambhā-candana-carcitam
kṛṣṇā-marut-sīkaraṃ ca
sudhāraśmi-galat-sudhām
sphāra-sphuran-megha-gṛham—the home of a great and splendid cloud; rambhā—banana trees; candana—sandal; carcitam—anointed; kṛṣṇā—of the Yamunā; marut—breeze; sīkaram—mist; ca—and; sudhā-raśmi-galat-sudhām—bringing the sweetest nectar of the moon.
English translation of verse 5.20.4:
That forest was like a palace that had great splendid clouds for a roof and banana trees for sandal-anointed walls. A breeze filled that place with mist from the Yamunā and the moonlight filled it with the sweetest nectar.