Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 1.14.39, 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 14 (The Liberation of Shakatasura and Trinavarta) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).
Verse 1.14.39
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
प्राप्ते ऽन्धकरे स्वारोहात्
को ऽपि बालं जहाति हि
त्वया निर्घृणया भूमौ
धृतो बालो महा-भये
prāpte 'ndhakare svārohāt
ko 'pi bālaṃ jahāti hi
tvayā nirghṛṇayā bhūmau
dhṛto bālo mahā-bhaye
prāpte—attained; andhakare—blinding darkness; sva—own; ārohāt—from the lap; kaḥ—who?; api—indeed; bālam—an infant; jahāti—puts down; hi—indeed; tvayā—by you; nirghṛṇayā—merciless; bhūmau—on the ground; dhṛtaḥ—placed; bālaḥ—infant; mahā—great; bhaye—in fear.
English translation of verse 1.14.39:
In that blinding darkness who took an infant from their lap and abandoned it?
You were so merciless that in that terrifying moment you placed your own infant boy on the ground.