Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.17.17, 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).
Verse 6.17.17
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-नारद उवाच
राधा-वाक्यं तदा श्रुत्वा
रुक्मिणी भीष्म-नन्दिनी
सपत्नी-सहिता प्राह
राधां कमल-लोचनाम्
śrī-nārada uvāca
rādhā-vākyaṃ tadā śrutvā
rukmiṇī bhīṣma-nandinī
sapatnī-sahitā prāha
rādhāṃ kamala-locanām
śrī-nārada uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; rādhā-vākyam—Śrī Rādhā's words; tadā—then; śrutvā—hearing; rukmiṇī—Rukmiṇī; bhīṣma-nandinī—the daughter of Bhīṣmaka; sapatnī-sahitā—with her co-wives; prāha—said; rādhām—to Rādhā; kamala-locanām—lotus-eyed.
English translation of verse 6.17.17:
Śrī Nārada said: After hearing Śrī Rādhā's words, Bhīṣmaka's daughter Rukmiṇī, who stood in the company of her co-wives, spoke to lotus-eyed Śrī Rādhā.