Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.7.43, 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 7 (The Marriage of Shri Rukmini) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).
Verse 6.7.43
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
जाते महोत्सवे पुर्यां
रुक्मिणीं रुचिराननाम्
उपयेमे विधानेन
मार्गशीर्षे हरिः स्वयम्
jāte mahotsave puryāṃ
rukmiṇīṃ rucirānanām
upayeme vidhānena
mārgaśīrṣe hariḥ svayam
jāte—born; mahotsave—a great festival; puryām—in the city; rukmiṇīm—Rukmiṇī; rucirānanām—beautiful-faced; upayeme—married; vidhānena—properly; mārgaśīrṣe—in the month of Margasirsa; hariḥ—Kṛṣṇa; svayam—personally.
English translation of verse 6.7.43:
In the month of Mārgasīrṣa (November-December) there was a great festival in Dvārakā City as Lord Kṛṣṇa married beautiful-faced Rukmiṇī.