Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.5.3, 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 5 (The Lord’s Appearance) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

काश्चिद् दिव्या अदिव्याश् च
तथा त्रि-गुण-वृत्तयः
भूमि-गोप्यो भविष्यन्ति
पुण्यैर् नाना-विधैः कृतैः

kāścid divyā adivyāś ca
tathā tri-guṇa-vṛttayaḥ
bhūmi-gopyo bhaviṣyanti
puṇyair nānā-vidhaiḥ kṛtaiḥ

kāścit—some; divyāḥ—women of the heavenly planets; adivyāḥ—women not from the heavenly planets; ca—and; tathā—so; tri-guṇa-vṛttayaḥ—the actions of the three modes; bhūmi—on the earth; gopyaḥ—gopīs; bhaviṣyanti—will become;

English translation of verse 1.5.3:

puṇyaiḥ—by pious deeds; nānā-vidhaiḥ—various; kṛtaiḥ—done.

Some women from the heavenly planets, some women not from the heavenly planets, and some women acting in the three modes will, because of various kinds of pious activities, become gopīs on the earth.

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