Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.16.2, 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 16 (Seeing Shri Radha’s Form) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).

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

यत्-स्पर्शनाद् धरेः साक्षान्
न वियोगो भवेत् क्वचित्
तं च सिद्धाश्रमं नाम
वदन्तीह पुरा-विदः

yat-sparśanād dhareḥ sākṣān
na viyogo bhavet kvacit
taṃ ca siddhāśramaṃ nāma
vadantīha purā-vidaḥ

yat-sparśanāt—by touching it; hareḥof Lord Kṛṣṇa; sākṣān—directly; na—not; viyogaḥseparated; bhavet—becomes; kvacit—sometime; tam—it; ca—and; siddhāśramam—Siddhāśrama; nāmanamed; vadanti—say; iha——here; purā-vidaḥ—they who know the truth of ancient times.

English translation of verse 6.16.2:

One who touches the land of Siddhāśrama will never be separated from Lord Kṛṣṇa. They who know the truth of ancient times say this place is named Siddhāśrama.

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