Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.2.28, 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 2 (Description of the Abode of Shri Goloka) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

ब्रह्माण्डम् एकं जानन्ति
यत्र जातास् तथा जनाः
मषका च यथान्तः-स्था
औडुम्बर-फलेषु वै

brahmāṇḍam ekaṃ jānanti
yatra jātās tathā janāḥ
maṣakā ca yathāntaḥ-sthā
auḍumbara-phaleṣu vai

brahmāṇḍam—universe; ekam—one; jānanti—know; yatrawhere; jātāḥ—born; tathā—so; janāḥ—people; maṣakāḥ—mosquitoes; ca—also; yathā—as; antaḥinside; sthāḥ—staying; auḍumbara-phaleṣu—in uḍumbara fruits; vai—indeed.

English translation of verse 1.2.28:

You know one universe. Living entities are born in many universes, like mosquitoes in many uḍumbara fruits.

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