Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.21.39, 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 21 (The Story of Shri Narada) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

तपो-ऽन्ते आगतां साक्षाद्
वाग्-देवीं श्री-सरस्वतीम्
विष्णोः प्रियां दिव्य-वर्णां
अपश्यन् नारदो मुनिः

tapo-'nte āgatāṃ sākṣād
vāg-devīṃ śrī-sarasvatīm
viṣṇoḥ priyāṃ divya-varṇāṃ
apaśyan nārado muniḥ

tapo-'nte—at the end of the austerities; āgatām—arruved; sākṣātdirectly; vāg-devīm—the goddess of speech; śrī-sarasvatīm—Sarasvatī; viṣṇoḥ—of Lords Viṣṇu; priyām—the beloved; divya-varṇām—splendid; apaśyat—saw; nāradaḥNārada; muniḥ—the sage.

English translation of verse 5.21.39:

When his austerities had come to their end, the sage Nārada personally saw splendid Sarasvatī, the goddess of speech and the beloved of Lord Viṣṇu.

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