Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.13.23, 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 6 of Chapter 13 (The Glories of Prabhasa-tirtha, the Sarasvati River, Bodha-pippala, and the Place Where the Gomati River Meets the Ocean) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).
Verse 6.13.23
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
वने ऽपि निवसन् सो ऽपि
जीव-हिंसां चकार ह
समा द्वादश-साहस्रं
न ववर्श यदा घनः
vane 'pi nivasan so 'pi
jīva-hiṃsāṃ cakāra ha
samā dvādaśa-sāhasraṃ
na vavarśa yadā ghanaḥ
vane—in the forest; api—even; nivasan—residing; saḥ—he; api—also; jīva- hiṃsām—violence to others; cakāra—did; ha—indeed; samā—years; dvādaśa- sāhasram—twelve thousand; na—not; vavarśa——rained; yadā—when; ghanaḥ—
English translation of verse 6.13.23:
the cloud.
Living in the forest, he became a hunter. Then there was a great drought and for twelve thousand years there was no rain.