Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.18.23, 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 18 (In the Course of Describing the Glories of Siddhashrama, a Description of the Rasa-dance Festival) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).
Verse 6.18.23
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
एताद्र्शो ऽपि रासो ऽन्यो
न भूतो न भविष्यति
शत-यूथस् तु गोपीनां
अत्र माधव वर्तते
etādrśo 'pi rāso 'nyo
na bhūto na bhaviṣyati
śata-yūthas tu gopīnāṃ
atra mādhava vartate
etādrśaḥ—like this; api—even; rāsaḥ—rasa dance; anyaḥ—another; na—not; bhūtaḥ—was; na—not; bhaviṣyati—will be; śata-yūthaḥ—a hundred groups; tu—indeed; gopīnām—of gopīs; atra—here; mādhava—O Kṛṣṇa; vartate—are.
English translation of verse 6.18.23:
There never was, nor will there ever be, another rāsa dance like this. O Kṛṣṇa, a hundred groups of gopīs are here!