Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.17.19, 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 17 (Description of the Yogurt Theft) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

श्री-प्रभावत्य् उवाच
नवनीतं घृतं दुग्धं
दधिं तक्रं यशोमति
आवयोर् भेद-रहितं
त्वत्-प्रसादाच् च मे ऽभवत्

śrī-prabhāvaty uvāca
navanītaṃ ghṛtaṃ dugdhaṃ
dadhiṃ takraṃ yaśomati
āvayor bheda-rahitaṃ
tvat-prasādāc ca me 'bhavat

śrī-prabhāvatī uvāca—Śrī Prabhāvatī said; navanītam—butter; ghṛtam—ghee; dugdham—milk; dadhim—yogurt; takram—buttermilk; yaśomati—Yaśodā; āvayoḥ—of us; bhedadifference; rahitam—without; tvat-prasādāt—by your mercy; ca—also; me—of me; abhavat—was.

English translation of verse 1.17.19:

Śrī Prabhāvatī said: O Yaśodā, for the two of us there is no separate property in butter, ghee, milk, yogurt, and buttermilk. By your kindness yours is also mine.

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