Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.10.31, 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:

श्री-नन्द उवाच
सुन्दरो बालकह् को ऽयं
न दृश्यो यत्-समह् क्वचित्
कथं पञ्च-दिनाज् जातस्
तन् मे ब्रूहि महा-मुने

śrī-nanda uvāca
sundaro bālakah ko 'yaṃ
na dṛśyo yat-samah kvacit
kathaṃ pañca-dināj jātas
tan me brūhi mahā-mune

śrī-nandah uvāca—Śrī Nanda said; sundarah—handsome; bālakah—boy; kah— who?; ayamHe; na—not; dṛśyah—visible; yat—with whom; samah—equal; kvacit - anywhere; katham—how?; pañcaafter five; dināt—days; jātah—born; tat—that; me—me; brūhi—please tell; mahā-mune—O great sage.

English translation of verse 1.10.31:

Śrī Nanda said: Who is this handsome boy, whose equal cannot be seen anywhere? How is it He was born after only five days (in the womb)? O great sage, please tell me.

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