Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.14.15, 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 14 (The Liberation of Shakatasura and Trinavarta) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

श्रद्धां न चक्रुर् बालोक्ते
गोपा गोप्यश् च विस्मिताः
त्रैमासिकः क्व बालो ऽयं
क्व चैतद् भार-भृत् त्व् अनः

śraddhāṃ na cakrur bālokte
gopā gopyaś ca vismitāḥ
traimāsikaḥ kva bālo 'yaṃ
kva caitad bhāra-bhṛt tv anaḥ

śraddhām—faith; na—not; cakruḥ—did; bālaof the children; ukte—in the words; gopāḥthe gopas; gopyaḥgopīs; ca—and; vismitāḥamazed; traimāsikaḥ—three months old; kva—where?; bālaḥinfant; ayamHe; kva—where?; ca—and; etat—this; bhāraa great burden; bhṛt—holding; tu—indeed; anaḥ—cart.

English translation of verse 1.14.15:

Astonished, the gopas and gopīs did not believe the childrens' words. "What is this three-month old infant in comparison to this heavily-burdened cart?"

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