Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 3.2.7, 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 3 of Chapter 2 (The Great Festival of Shri Giriraja) of Canto 3 (giriraja-khanda).

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

एवं रमा वै विरजा च माधवी
माया च कृष्णा नृप जह्नु-नन्दिनी
द्व-त्रिंशद्-अष्टौ च तथा हि षोडश
सख्यश् च तासां किल यूथ आगतः

evaṃ ramā vai virajā ca mādhavī
māyā ca kṛṣṇā nṛpa jahnu-nandinī
dva-triṃśad-aṣṭau ca tathā hi ṣoḍaśa
sakhyaś ca tāsāṃ kila yūtha āgataḥ

evam—thus; ramāRamā; vai—indeed; virajāVirajā; ca—and; mādhavīMādhavī; māyāMāyā; ca—and; kṛṣṇāYamunā; nṛpaO king; jahnu-nandinīGaṅgā; dva-triṃśat—32; aṣṭau—eight; ca—and; tathā hi—furthermore; ṣoḍaśa16; sakhyaḥ—friends; ca—and; tāsām—of them; kilaindeed; yūtha—groups; āgatah—arrived.

English translation of verse 3.2.7:

Then Ramā, Virajā, Mādhavī, Māyā, Yamunā, and Gaṅgā, accompanied by thirty-two, eight, and sixteen groups of gopīs, arrived.

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