Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.16.18, 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 6.16.18
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
मद्-रूप-कारणात् सख्यः
शतधन्वा मृतो ऽभवत्
अक्रूरः कृतवर्मा च
पुरा तौ द्वौ पलायितौ
mad-rūpa-kāraṇāt sakhyaḥ
śatadhanvā mṛto 'bhavat
akrūraḥ kṛtavarmā ca
purā tau dvau palāyitau
mad-rūpa-kāraṇāt—because of my beauty; sakhyaḥ—O freinds; śatadhanvā—Satadhanva; mṛtaḥ—died; abhavat—became; akrūraḥ—Akrūra; kṛtavarmā—Kṛtavarmā; ca—and; purā—before; tau—they; dvau—both; palāyitau—fled.
English translation of verse 6.16.18:
Because of my beauty Akrūra and Kṛtavarmā fled and Śatadhanvā died.