Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.18.41, 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 6.18.41
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-नारद उवाच
राधा-वाक्यं ततः श्रुत्वा
सर्वाः पट्ट-महा-स्त्रियः
जहुर् मानं स्व-रासस्य
विस्मिता हर्षिताश् च ताः
śrī-nārada uvāca
rādhā-vākyaṃ tataḥ śrutvā
sarvāḥ paṭṭa-mahā-striyaḥ
jahur mānaṃ sva-rāsasya
vismitā harṣitāś ca tāḥ
śrī-nārada uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; rādhā-vākyam—Śrī Rādhā's words; tataḥ—then; śrutvā—hearing; sarvāḥ—all; paṭṭa-mahā-striyaḥ—the queens; jahuḥ—abandoned; mānam—their pride; sva-rāsasya—of their own rasa dance; vismitā—astonished; harṣitāḥ—overjoyed; ca—and; tāḥ—they.
English translation of verse 6.18.41:
Śrī Nārada said: When they heard Śrī Rādhā's words, the great queens became filled with wonder and joy. They gave up all the pride they felt in their own rāsa dance.