Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.17.10, 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 17 (Shri Shri Radha and Krishna Meet at Siddhashrama and the Nature of Shri Radha’s Love Is Revealed) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).

Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:

यथेच्छालिङ्गितो रासे
गोपीभिस् त्वं वशी-कृतः
इदं ते चरितं देव
नर-लोक-विडम्बनम्

yathecchāliṅgito rāse
gopībhis tvaṃ vaśī-kṛtaḥ
idaṃ te caritaṃ deva
nara-loka-viḍambanam

yathā—according; icchāto desire; āliṅgitaḥ—embraced; rāse—in the rasa dance; gopībhiḥ—by the gopīs; tvam—You; vaśī-kṛtaḥconquered; idam—this; te—of You; caritam—actions; devaO Lord; nara-lokaof human beings; viḍambanam—an imitation.

English translation of verse 6.17.10:

"In the rāsa dance You embraced the gopīs to Your heart's content. Your were conquered by the gopīs. O Lord, these pastimes of Yours imitate the actions of human beings.

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