Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.2.24, 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 6 of Chapter 2 (Residence in Shri Dvaraka) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).

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

श्रीवत्साङ्कं चतुर्-बाहुं
पद्माक्षं वन-मालिनम्
कोटि-कन्दर्प-लवणं
काल-मेघ-सम-प्रभम्

śrīvatsāṅkaṃ catur-bāhuṃ
padmākṣaṃ vana-mālinam
koṭi-kandarpa-lavaṇaṃ
kāla-megha-sama-prabham

śrīvatsāṅkam—marked with Śrīvatsa; catur-bāhum—with four arms; padmākṣam—lotus eyes; vana-mālinam—a forest garland; koṭiten million; kandarpaKamadevas; lavaṇam—handsome; kāla-megha-sama-prabham—splendid as a black cloud.

English translation of verse 6.2.24:

. . . had lotus eyes and four arms, was marked with Śrīvatsa and decorated with a forest garland, was splendid like a black cloud, and was more handsome than ten million Kāmadevas.

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