Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.13.3, 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 13 (The Liberation of Putana) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

अथ गोकुलम् आसाद्य
गोप-गोपी-गणाकुलम्
रूपं दधार सा दिव्यं
वपुः षोडश-वर्षिकम्

atha gokulam āsādya
gopa-gopī-gaṇākulam
rūpaṃ dadhāra sā divyaṃ
vapuḥ ṣoḍaśa-varṣikam

athathen; gokulam—Gokula; āsādyaattaining; gopaof gopas; gopīand gopīs; gaṇawith multitudes; ākulam—filled; rūpam—a form; dadhāra—assumed; sā—she; divyam—glorious; vapuḥ—form; ṣoḍaśasixteen; varṣikam—years.

English translation of verse 1.13.3:

Coming to Gokula, which was filled with many gopas and gopīs, the demoness assumed the form of a splendid sixteen-year old girl.

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