Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.18.29, 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 5 of Chapter 18 (Uddhava Hears the Gopis’ Words and Returns to Mathura) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.18.29
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
एकान्ते चाक्षय-वटे
कृष्णा-तीरे मनोहरे
नत्वा कृष्णं परिक्रम्य
प्रेम-गद्गदया गिरा प्राह स्रवन्-नेत्र-पद्म
ekānte cākṣaya-vaṭe
kṛṣṇā-tīre manohare
natvā kṛṣṇaṃ parikramya
prema-gadgadayā girā prāha sravan-netra-padma
उद्धवो बुद्धि-सत्तमः
uddhavo buddhi-sattamaḥ
ekānte—solitary; ca—and; akṣaya-vaṭe—an immortal banyan tree; kṛṣṇā-tīre—on the Yamunā's shore; manohare—beautiful; natvā—bowing; kṛṣṇam—to Lord Kṛṣṇa; parikramya—circumambulating; prema-gadgadayā—choked with love; girā—with words; prāha—said; sravan-netra-padmaḥ—tears flowing from his lotus eyes; uddhavaḥ—Uddhava; buddhi-sattamaḥ—the best of the wise.
English translation of verse 5.18.29:
Under an immortal banyan tree by the Yamunā's beautiful shore, Uddhava bowed down and before Lord Kṛṣṇa and then circumambulated Him. Tears flowing from his lotus eyes, Uddhava, the best of the wise, spoke in a voice choked with love.