Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 8.13.65, 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 13 (A Thousand Names of Lord Balarama) of Canto 8 (balabhadra-khanda).

Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:

वसन्त-मालती-कर्षी
गदो गद्यो गदाग्रजह्
गुणार्णवो गुण-निधिर्
गुण-पात्रो गुणाकरह्

vasanta-mālatī-karṣī
gado gadyo gadāgrajah
guṇārṇavo guṇa-nidhir
guṇa-pātro guṇākarah

He is glorious with vasanta and mālatī flowers (vasanta-mālatī-karṣī). He is strong like a great mace (gada). He is expert at fighting with a mace (gadya). He is the elder brother of Gada (gadāgraja). He is an ocean of virtues (guṇārṇava and guṇa-nidhi), and a reservoir of virtues (guṇa-pātra and guṇākara).

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