Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.8.16, 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).
Verse 6.8.16
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
आवन्त्य-राज-तनुजां
मित्रविन्दां मनोहराम्
स्वयम्वरे तां जहार
भगवान् रुक्मिणीं यथा
āvantya-rāja-tanujāṃ
mitravindāṃ manoharām
svayamvare tāṃ jahāra
bhagavān rukmiṇīṃ yathā
āvantya-rāja-tanujām—the daughter of the king of Avanti-pura; mitravindām—Mitravindā; manoharām—beautiful; svayamvare—in the svayamvara; tām—her; jahāra—took; bhagavān—the Lord; rukmiṇīm—Rukmiṇī; yathā—as.
English translation of verse 6.8.16:
Then, as He had kidnapped Rukmiṇī, Lord Kṛṣṇa kidnapped beautiful Mitravindā, the princess of Avantya-deśa, at the time of her svayamvara.