Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verses 1.10.25-26, 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 10 (Description of the Birth of Lord Balarama) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

देवक्याह् सप्तमे गर्भे
हर्ष-सोक-विवर्धने
व्रजं प्रणीते रोहिण्याम्
अनन्ते योगमायया
अहो गर्भह् क्व विगत
इत्य् ऊचुर् माथुरा जनाह्

devakyāh saptame garbhe
harṣa-soka-vivardhane
vrajaṃ praṇīte rohiṇyām
anante yogamāyayā
aho garbhah kva vigata
ity ūcur māthurā janāh

devakyāh—of Devakī; saptame—in the seventh; garbhe—embryo; harṣa happiness; sokaand grief; vivardhane—increasing; vrajam—to Vraja; praṇīte— brought; rohiṇyām—in Rohiṇī; anante—Ananta; yogamāyayā—by Yogamāyā; ahah— Oh; garbhah—embryo; kva—where?; vigatah—gone; iti—thus; ūcuh—said; māthurāh janāh—the people of Mathurā.

English translation of verses 1.10.25-26:

When Yogamāyā carried Devakī's seventh fetus, which brought her both joy and grief, to Vraja and placed it in Rohiṇī's womb, the people of Mathurā said,

"Where did the child go?"

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