Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.16.31, 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:

कुश-कौशल-शीलार्थ-
रूप-यौवन-गर्विताः
श्री-कृष्णं मानदं प्राहुर्
अष्टा पट्ट-महा-स्त्रियः

kuśa-kauśala-śīlārtha-
rūpa-yauvana-garvitāḥ
śrī-kṛṣṇaṃ mānadaṃ prāhur
aṣṭā paṭṭa-mahā-striyaḥ

kuśawild; kauśalagood fortune; śīlavirtue; arthaopulence; rūpabeauty; yauvanaand youth; garvitāḥ—proud; śrī-kṛṣṇam—to Lord Kṛṣṇa; mānadam—humble; prāhuḥ—spoke; aṣṭāeight; paṭṭa-mahā-striyaḥ—principal queens.

English translation of verse 6.16.31:

Proud of their good fortune, virtues, wealth, and youthful beauty, the eight principal queens spoke to humble Lord Kṛṣṇa.

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