Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 8.9.1, 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 8 of Chapter 9 (Lord Balarama’s Rasa Dance) of Canto 8 (balabhadra-khanda).
Verse 8.9.1
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
दुर्योधन उवाच मुनि-शार्दूल भगवान् बलभद्रो नाग-
कन्याभिर् गोपीभिह् कदा कालिन्दी-कूले विजहार.
duryodhana uvāca muni-śārdūla bhagavān balabhadro nāga-
kanyābhir gopībhih kadā kālindī-kūle vijahāra.
duryodhana uvāca—Duryodhana said; muni-śārdūla—O tiger of sages; bhagavān—Lord; balabhadrah—Balarāma; nāga—snake; kanyābhih—with the girls; gopībhih—with the gopīs; kadā—when?; kālindī-kūle—on the Yamunā's shore; vijahāra—enjoyed pastimes.
English translation of verse 8.9.1:
Duryodhana said: O tiger of sages, when did Lord Balarāma enjoy the rāsa dance on the Yamunā's shore with gopīs that had been snake-girls in their previous birth?