Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.20.54, 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:

तदैव निर्गत-ज्योतिर्
दश-सूर्य-सम-प्रभम्
परिभ्रमद् दश-दिशः
श्री-कृष्णे लीनतां गतः

tadaiva nirgata-jyotir
daśa-sūrya-sama-prabham
paribhramad daśa-diśaḥ
śrī-kṛṣṇe līnatāṃ gataḥ

tadāthen; eva—indeed; nirgata—left; jyotiḥlight; daśa-sūrya-sama-prabham—splendid as ten suns; paribhramat—wandering; daśa-diśaḥthe ten directions; śrī-kṛṣṇe—into Lord Kṛṣṇa; līnatām—merged; gataḥ—went.

English translation of verse 5.20.54:

Then a spark of light splendid as ten suns left the sage's body and, after wandering the ten directions, finally merged into Lord Kṛṣṇa.

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