Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.11.54, 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:

ते ऽनुजाहं हत-सुता
कारागारे निपातिता
दातुम् अर्हसि कल्याण
कल्याणीं तनुजां च मे

te 'nujāhaṃ hata-sutā
kārāgāre nipātitā
dātum arhasi kalyāṇa
kalyāṇīṃ tanujāṃ ca me

te—of you; anujāthe younger sister; aham—I am; hatakilled; sutāsons; kārāgāre—in a prison cell; nipātitā—thrown; dātum—to give; arhasi—you deserve; kalyāṇaO noble one; kalyāṇīm—beautiful; tanujām—daughter; ca—also; me—to me.

English translation of verse 1.11.54:

I am your younger sister. You killed my sons and threw me in a prison cell. O noble one, please give this beautiful daughter to me.

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