Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.16.34, 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:

श्री-नारद उवाच
तथास्तु चोक्त्वा श्री-कृष्णः
पट्ट-स्त्री-परिवेष्टितः
षोडश-स्त्री-सहस्राढ्यो
द्रष्टुं राधां जगाम ह

śrī-nārada uvāca
tathāstu coktvā śrī-kṛṣṇaḥ
paṭṭa-strī-pariveṣṭitaḥ
ṣoḍaśa-strī-sahasrāḍhyo
draṣṭuṃ rādhāṃ jagāma ha

śrī-nārada uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; tathā—so; astube it; ca—and; uktvā—saying; śrī-kṛṣṇaḥŚrī Kṛṣṇa; paṭṭa-strīof the queens; pariveṣṭitaḥ—surrounded; ṣoḍaśa-strī-sahasrāḍhyaḥ—with sixteen thousand queens; draṣṭum—to see; rādhām—Rādhā; jagāma—went; ha—certainly.

English translation of verse 6.16.34:

Śrī Nārada said: Saying, "So be it.", and taking the sixteen thousand queens with Him, Lord Kṛṣṇa went to see Śrī Rādhā.

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