Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.11.64, 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:

विश्वस्तो ऽहं देव-वाक्ये
देवास् ते ऽपि मृषा-गिरः
न जानामि क्व मे शत्रुर्
जातः कौ कथितो ऽनया

viśvasto 'haṃ deva-vākye
devās te 'pi mṛṣā-giraḥ
na jānāmi kva me śatrur
jātaḥ kau kathito 'nayā

viśvastaḥ—believed; aham—I; devaof the demigods; vākye—in the words; devāḥthe demigods; te—they; api—also; mṛṣāfalse; giraḥwords; na—not; jānāmi—I know; kva—where; me—of me; śatruḥ—the enemy; jātaḥ—born; kau—on the earth; kathitaḥ—said; anayā—by her.

English translation of verse 1.11.64:

I believed the words of the demigods. The demigods also lie. She said my enemy is already born on the earth. Where? I don't know.

Like what you read? Consider supporting this website: