Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.20.41, 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:

विकसत्-पद्म-गन्धाढ्यं
तत्-तीरं मन्द-मारुतम्
रमया राधया सार्धं
माधवो निषसाद ह

vikasat-padma-gandhāḍhyaṃ
tat-tīraṃ manda-mārutam
ramayā rādhayā sārdhaṃ
mādhavo niṣasāda ha

vikasat-padma-gandhāḍhyam—opulent with the scent of blossoming lotus flowers; tat-tīram—on that shore; manda-mārutam—a gentle breeze; ramayā—the goddess of fortune; rādhayā—with Rādhā; sārdham—with; mādhavaḥ—Kṛṣṇa; niṣasāda—sat down; ha—indeed.

English translation of verse 5.20.41:

On the lakeshore filled with the scent of blossoming lotuses and cooled by a gentle breeze, Lord Kṛṣṇa sat down with the goddess of fortune, Śrī Rādhā.

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