Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.16.8, 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).
Verse 6.16.8
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
तत्रैव भगवान् साक्षाद्
यादवैः परिमण्डितः
स्त्रीणां षोडश-साहस्रैर्
यात्रार्थं चाययौ नृप
tatraiva bhagavān sākṣād
yādavaiḥ parimaṇḍitaḥ
strīṇāṃ ṣoḍaśa-sāhasrair
yātrārthaṃ cāyayau nṛpa
tatra—there; eva—indeed; bhagavān—the Supreme Personality of Godhead; sākṣāt—directly; yādavaiḥ—with the Yādavas; parimaṇḍitaḥ—decorated; strīṇām—of the wives; ṣoḍaśa-sāhasraiḥ—with sixteen thousand; yātrārtham—to go on pilgrimage; ca—and; āyayau—went; nṛpa—O king.
English translation of verse 6.16.8:
O king, accompanied by His sixteen-thousand queens and all His relatives in the Yādava dynasty, Lord Kṛṣṇa also went on a pilgrimage to Siddhāśrama.