Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.2.20, 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 1 of Chapter 2 (Description of the Abode of Shri Goloka) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

तत्र कन्दर्प-लावण्याः
श्यामसुन्दर-विग्रहाः
द्वारि गन्तुं चाभ्युदिता
न्यषेधन् कृष्ण-पार्षदाः

tatra kandarpa-lāvaṇyāḥ
śyāmasundara-vigrahāḥ
dvāri gantuṃ cābhyuditā
nyaṣedhan kṛṣṇa-pārṣadāḥ

tatra—there; kandarpaof Kāmadeva; lāvaṇyaḥ—handsomeness; śyāmasundara-vigrahaḥ—beautiful forms; dvāri—at the door; gantum—to go; ca—also; abhyuditāḥ—standing; nyaṣedhan—stayed; kṛṣṇaof Lord Kṛṣṇa; pārṣadāḥ—the asssociates.

English translation of verse 1.2.20:

Their forms very beautiful, more beautiful than Kāmadeva himself, Śrī Kṛṣṇa's associates stood at the entrance.

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