Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.24.63, 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 24 (The Killing of the Kola Demon) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

स्रग्व्य्-एक-कुण्डलं गौरं
तालाङ्क-रथ-सम्युतम्
स्तुत्वा परमया भक्त्या
पपात चरणौ पुनः

sragvy-eka-kuṇḍalaṃ gauraṃ
tālāṅka-ratha-samyutam
stutvā paramayā bhaktyā
papāta caraṇau punaḥ

sragvī—wearing a garland; eka-kuṇḍalam—one earring; gauram—fair; tālāṅka-ratha-samyutam—His chariot marked with the insignia of a palm tree; stutvā—offering prayers; paramayā—with great; bhaktyā—devotion; papāta—fell; caraṇau—at the feet; punaḥ—again and again.

English translation of verse 5.24.63:

Lord Ananta had a fair complexion. He wore a flower garland and a single earring, and His chariot bore the insignia of a palm tree. Offering prayers with great devotion, Māṇḍūkadeva fell again and again at His feet.

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