Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.17.23, 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:

गोपीनां शत-यूथं च
सम्पूज्य च पृथक् पृथक्
वार्तालापान् बहु-विधान्
कृत्वा कृष्ण-प्रियास् ततः स्वापयित्वाथ तां जग्मुः स्वं स्वं वै शिबिरं
मुदा

gopīnāṃ śata-yūthaṃ ca
sampūjya ca pṛthak pṛthak
vārtālāpān bahu-vidhān
kṛtvā kṛṣṇa-priyās tataḥ svāpayitvātha tāṃ jagmuḥ svaṃ svaṃ vai śibiraṃ
mudā

gopīnām—of the gopīs; śata-yūtham—the hundred groups; ca—and; sampūjyaworshiping; ca—and; pṛthakone; pṛthak—by one; vārtālāpān—conversations; bahu-vidhān—many kinds; kṛtvā—doing; kṛṣṇa-priyāḥLord Kṛṣṇa's dear queens; tataḥthen; svāpayitvā—putting to sleep; atha-then; tām—to her; jagmuḥ—went; svam—own; svam—own; vai—indeed; śibiram—palanquin; mudāhappily.

English translation of verse 6.17.23:

Then Rukmiṇī and her co-wives worshiped the hundred groups of gopīs one by one. After talking of many things, Lord Kṛṣṇa's queens saw that each gopī comfortably went to sleep. Then the queens happily returned to their own palanquins.

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