Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.16.38, 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:

हंसाभैर् व्यजनैर् दिव्यैर्
वीज्यमाना सखी-जनैः
छत्र-दोल-धरैस् तत्र
व्रजद्भिस् तम् इतस् ततः

haṃsābhair vyajanair divyair
vījyamānā sakhī-janaiḥ
chatra-dola-dharais tatra
vrajadbhis tam itas tataḥ

haṃsābhaiḥ—splendid as swans; vyajanaiḥ—with fans; divyaiḥ—splendid; vījyamānā—fanning; sakhī-janaiḥby friends; chatraparasol; dolaand palanquin;dharais tatra—carrying; vrajadbhiḥ—walking; tam—Her; itaḥ—here; tataḥand there.

English translation of verse 6.16.38:

Bearing Her palanquin, holding Her parasol, and fanning Her with fans splendid and graceful as a flock of swans, the gopīs carried Rādhā here and there.

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