Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.11.32, 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 11 (Description of Shri Krishnacandra’s Birth) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

एधःसु त्व् अनल इवात्र वर्तमानो
यो ऽन्त-स्थो बहिर् अपि चाम्बरं यथा हि
अधरो धरणिर् इवास्य सर्व-साक्षी
तस्मै ते नम इव सर्व-गो नभस्वान्

edhaḥsu tv anala ivātra vartamāno
yo 'nta-stho bahir api cāmbaraṃ yathā hi
adharo dharaṇir ivāsya sarva-sākṣī
tasmai te nama iva sarva-go nabhasvān

edhaḥsu—in fuel; tu—indeed; analaḥfire; iva—like; atra—here; vartamānaḥbeing; yaḥ—who; antaḥwithin; sthaḥsituated; bahiḥwithout; api—also; ca—also; ambaram—the sky; yathā—as; hi—indeed; adharaḥmaintainer; dharaṇiḥthe earth; iva—like; asya—of that; sarvaof all; sākṣīthe witness; tasmai—to Him; te—to You; namaḥ—obeisances; iva—like; sarva-gaḥall-pervading; nabhasvānthe air.

English translation of verse 1.11.32:

Your are inside, like fire in fuel. You are outside, like the sky. You are the maintainer, like the earth. You see everything. You are present everywhere, like the air. Obeisances to You!

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