Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 8.13.98, 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:

उत्तरीय-धरह् पुर्णो
घन-कञ्चुक-सङ्घवान्
पीतोष्णीषह् सितोष्णीषो
रक्तोष्णीषो दिग्-अम्बरह्

uttarīya-dharah purṇo
ghana-kañcuka-saṅghavān
pītoṣṇīṣah sitoṣṇīṣo
raktoṣṇīṣo dig-ambarah

He wears an upper garment (uttarīya-dhara). He is perfect (purṇa). He wears strong armor (ghana-kañcuka-saṅghavān), a yellow turban (pītoṣnīṣa), a white turban (sitoṣṇīṣa), or a red turban (raktoṣṇīṣa). Sometimes He wears the four directions as His garment (dig-ambara).

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