Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.3.21, 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 2 of Chapter 3 (Description of the Yamuna’s Arrival) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).
Verse 2.3.21
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
कृष्णा श्री-यमुना साक्षात्
कालिन्दी सरितां वरा
समुद्रम् एत्य श्री-गङ्गां
प्राह गद्गदया गिरा
kṛṣṇā śrī-yamunā sākṣāt
kālindī saritāṃ varā
samudram etya śrī-gaṅgāṃ
prāha gadgadayā girā
kṛṣṇā—dark; śrī-yamunā—Śrī Yamunā; sākṣāt—directly; kālindī—the daughter of Mount Kalinda; saritām—of rivers; varā—the best; samudram—to the ocean; etya—going; śrī-gaṅgām—to Śrī Gaṅgā; prāha—said; gadgadayā—choked with emotion; girā—with words.
English translation of verse 2.3.21:
When dark Śrī Yamunā, who was the best of rivers and the daughter of Mount Kalinda, entered the ocean, she spoke to Śrī Gaṅgā with words choked with emotion.