Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.20.9, 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).

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

युव-कन्दर्प-कोटीनां
माधुर्य-हारिणं हरिम्
दृष्ट्वा राधा जहौ दुःखं
ब्रह्म ज्ञात्वा गुणं यथा

yuva-kandarpa-koṭīnāṃ
mādhurya-hāriṇaṃ harim
dṛṣṭvā rādhā jahau duḥkhaṃ
brahma jñātvā guṇaṃ yathā

yuvayouthful; kandarpaKāmadevas; koṭīnām—of millions; mādhurya-hāriṇam—eclipsing the charm; harim—Kṛṣṇa; dṛṣṭvāseeing; rādhāRādhā; jahau—abandoned; duḥkham—unhappiness; brahmathe Supreme Personality of Godhead; jñātvāunderstanding; guṇam—the modes of nature; yathā—as.

English translation of verse 5.20.9:

Gazing at Lord Kṛṣṇa, who eclipses the charms of many millions of youthful Kāmadevas, Rādhā became free of all distress. She was like a yogī who, at last understanding the nature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, becomes free from the influence of the the material modes of nature.

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