Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 1.5.11, 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).
Verse 1.5.11
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
जालन्धर्यश् च या नार्यो
वीक्ष्य वृन्दा-पतिं हरिम्
ऊचुर् वयं हरिः साक्षाद्
अस्माकं तु वरो भवेत्
jālandharyaś ca yā nāryo
vīkṣya vṛndā-patiṃ harim
ūcur vayaṃ hariḥ sākṣād
asmākaṃ tu varo bhavet
jālandharyaḥ—the women of Jālandhara; ca—and; yāḥ—who; nāryaḥ—women;
English translation of verse 1.5.11:
vīkṣya—seeing; vṛndā-patim—the husband of Vṛndā; harim—Lord Hari; ūcuḥ—
said; vayam—we; hariḥ—Lord Hari; sākṣāt—directly; asmākam—of us; tu—
indeed; varaḥ—choice; bhavet—is.
When the women of the Jālandhara country saw Lord Hari, the husband of Vṛndā, they said (to themselves), "May Lord Hari be our chosen husband".