Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.8.2, 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 8 (Description of Shri Radhika’s Birth) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

श्री-बहुलाश्व उवाच
त्वया कुलं कौ विशदी-कृतं मे
शुभं हरेर् यद् यशसामलेन
श्री-कृष्ण-भक्त-क्षण-सङ्गमेन
जनो ऽपि सत् स्याद् बहुना किम् उ स्वित्

śrī-bahulāśva uvāca
tvayā kulaṃ kau viśadī-kṛtaṃ me
śubhaṃ harer yad yaśasāmalena
śrī-kṛṣṇa-bhakta-kṣaṇa-saṅgamena
jano 'pi sat syād bahunā kim u svit

śrī-bahulāśvaḥ uvāca—Śrī Bahulāśva said; tvayā—by you; kulaṃthe family; kau—bad; viśadī-kṛtaṃpurified; me—of me; śubhaṃauspicious; harer—of Lord Hari; yad—which; yaśasā—by the fame; amalena—pure; śrī-kṛṣṇaof Śrī Kṛṣṇa; bhaktaof the devotees; kṣaṇaa moment's; saṅgamena—by the contact; jano—a person; api—also; sat—saint; syādbecomes; bahunā—more; kim u svit—what?

English translation of verse 1.8.2:

Śrī Bahulāśva said: By giving it the narrations of Lord Hari's pure glories you purified my materialistic family and made it auspicious. By a moment's touch with Lord Kṛṣṇa's devotee even an ordinary person will become a saint. What more need I say?

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