Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.11.7, 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 4 of Chapter 11 (The Story of the Gopis That were Residents of Rama-vaikuntha, Shvetadvipa, Urdhva-vaikuntha, Ajita-pada, and Shri Lokacala) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).

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

व्याघ्र-चर्माम्बरं बिभ्रन्
जट-मुकुट-मण्डितः
विभूति-धूसरो वेणुं
वादयन् मोहयन् जगत्

vyāghra-carmāmbaraṃ bibhran
jaṭa-mukuṭa-maṇḍitaḥ
vibhūti-dhūsaro veṇuṃ
vādayan mohayan jagat

vyāghra-carmāmbaram—a tiger's sking garment; bibhran—wearing; jāta-mukuṭa-maṇḍitaḥwith matted locks; vibhūtiopulences; dhūsaraḥ—covered; veṇum—flute; vādayan—playing; mohayan—charming; jagatthe universe.

English translation of verse 4.11.7:

Dressed in a tigerskin, His hair matted, and His natural opulences concealed, by playing the flute he enchanted all the worlds.

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