Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.8.15, 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:

द्वारकाम् एत्य कालिन्दीं
सूर्य-कन्यां मनोहराम्
उपयेमे विधानेन
वितन्वन् मङ्गलं परम्

dvārakām etya kālindīṃ
sūrya-kanyāṃ manoharām
upayeme vidhānena
vitanvan maṅgalaṃ param

dvārakām—to Dvārakā; etyagoing; kālindīm—Kālindī; sūrya-kanyām—the daughter of the sun-god; manoharām—beautiful; upayeme—married; vidhānena—according to the proper rituals; vitanvan—giving; maṅgalam—auspiciousness; param—great.

English translation of verse 6.8.15:

Returning to Dvārakā, Lord Kṛṣṇa married beautiful Kālindī, the sun-god's daughter, in a proper and auspicious ritual.

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