Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.18.19, 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 18 (In the Course of Describing the Glories of Siddhashrama, a Description of the Rasa-dance Festival) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).
Verse 6.18.19
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
एवं सर्वा निशा राजन्
क्षणवद् रास-मण्डले
व्यतीताभून् महा-राज
महानन्दमयी शुभा
evaṃ sarvā niśā rājan
kṣaṇavad rāsa-maṇḍale
vyatītābhūn mahā-rāja
mahānandamayī śubhā
evam—thus; sarvā—the entire; niśā—night; rājan—O king; kṣaṇavat—like a moment; rāsa-maṇḍale—in the rasa dance circle; vyatītā abhūt—passed; mahā-rāja—O great king; mahānandamayī—blissful; śubhā—beautiful.
English translation of verse 6.18.19:
O king, in this way the very blissful and beautiful night passed like a single moment in the circle of the rāsa dance.