Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 1.16.3, 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 16 (Description of Shri Radhika’s Wedding) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).
Verse 1.16.3
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
तद्-अन्ध-कारे महति प्रजाते
बाले रुदत्य् अङ्क-गते ऽति-भीते
नन्दो भयं प्राप शिशुं स बिभ्रद्
धरिं परेशं शरणं जगाम
tad-andha-kāre mahati prajāte
bāle rudaty aṅka-gate 'ti-bhīte
nando bhayaṃ prāpa śiśuṃ sa bibhrad
dhariṃ pareśaṃ śaraṇaṃ jagāma
tad-andha-kare—blinding darkness; mahati—great; prajāte—manifest; bāle—the boy; rudati—crying; aṅka-gate—on his arm; ati-bhīte—very frightened; nandaḥ—Nanda; bhayam—fear; prāpa—attained; śiśum—infant; saḥ—he; bibhrat—holding; harim—of Lord Hari; para-īśam—the Supreme Personality of Godhead; śaraṇaṃ jagāma—took shelter.
English translation of verse 1.16.3:
When a great and blinding darkness came and the frightened infant in his arm cried, Nanda became afraid. Clutching his boy, he took shelter of Lord Hari, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.