Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.8.13, 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 8 (The Marriages of All the Queens) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).

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

एकदा रथम् आरुह्य
हरिर् गाण्डीविना सह
सु-निरे यमुना-तीरे
मृगयार्थी विनिर्ययौ

ekadā ratham āruhya
harir gāṇḍīvinā saha
su-nire yamunā-tīre
mṛgayārthī viniryayau

ekadāone day; ratham—a chariot; āruhya—mounting; hariḥKṛṣṇa; gāṇḍīvinā—with Arjuna; sahawith; su-nire—beautiful waters; yamunā-tīre—on the Yamunā's shore; mṛgayārthī—wishing to hunt; viniryayau—went.

English translation of verse 6.8.13:

One day Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna went hunting on the shore of the beautiful Yamunā.

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