Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.8.51, 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 8 (The Killing of Kamsa) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.8.51
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-नारद उवाच
एवम् अश्रु-मुखीर् दीना
आश्वास्य नृप-योषितः
विधाय यमुना-तीरे
चिताः श्रीखण्ड-सम्युताः
śrī-nārada uvāca
evam aśru-mukhīr dīnā
āśvāsya nṛpa-yoṣitaḥ
vidhāya yamunā-tīre
citāḥ śrīkhaṇḍa-samyutāḥ
śrī-nārada uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; evam—thus; aśru-mukhīḥ—faces filled with tears; dīnā—pathetic; āśvāsya—comforting; nṛpa-yoṣitaḥ—the queens; vidhāya—placing; yamunā-tīre—on the Yamuna shore; citāḥ—a funeral pyre; śrīkhaṇḍa-samyutāḥ—made of sandal wood.
English translation of verse 5.8.51:
Śrī Nārada said: After consoling the poor tear-faced queens, the Lord built a sandalwood funeral pyre on the Yamunā's shore.