Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 1.15.9, 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 15 (Revelation of the Universal Form to Nanda’s Wife) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).
Verse 1.15.9
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
अर्षाणाम् अर्बुदे याते
तपस् तत् तपतोर् द्वयोः
ब्रह्म प्रसन्नस् ताव् एत्य
वरं ब्रूहीत्य् उवाच ह
arṣāṇām arbude yāte
tapas tat tapator dvayoḥ
brahma prasannas tāv etya
varaṃ brūhīty uvāca ha
varṣāṇām—of years; arbude—a hundred million; yāte—passed; tapaḥ—austerities; tat—that; tapatoḥ—performing; dvayoḥ—both; brahmā—Brahmā; prasannaḥ—pleased; tau—both; etya—going; varam—benediction; brūhi—please ask; iti—thus; uvāca—said; ha—indeed.
English translation of verse 1.15.9:
After they has spent a hundred million years performing these austerities, the demigod Brahmā, pleased with them, approached and said, "Ask a benediction".