Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.20.40, 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 5.20.40
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
सहस्र-दल-पद्मैश् च
मण्डितं तद् इतस् ततः
भ्रमर-ध्वनि-सम्युक्तं
पुंस्-कोकिल-रुत-व्रतम्
sahasra-dala-padmaiś ca
maṇḍitaṃ tad itas tataḥ
bhramara-dhvani-samyuktaṃ
puṃs-kokila-ruta-vratam
sahasra-dala-padmaiḥ—with thousand-petal lotuses; ca—and; maṇḍitam—decorated; tat—that; itaḥ—here; tataḥ—and there; bhramara—bees; dhvani—sound; samyuktam—with; puṃs-kokila-ruta-vratam—the cooing of cuckoos.
English translation of verse 5.20.40:
It was decorated with many thousand-petal lotuses. Here and there were the sounds of humming bees and cooing cuckoos.