Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.17.24, 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-यशोदोवाच
गवां कोटिर् गृहे मे ऽस्ति
गोरसैर् अर्दिताचला
न जाने दधि-मुङ् बालो
नात्ति सो ऽत्र कदाचन

śrī-yaśodovāca
gavāṃ koṭir gṛhe me 'sti
gorasair arditācalā
na jāne dadhi-muṅ bālo
nātti so 'tra kadācana

śrī-yaśodā uvāca—Śrī Yaśodā said; gavām—of cows; koṭiḥten million; gṛhe—in the home; me—of me; astiis; gorasaiḥ—with milk; arditā—overcome; acalācannot move; na—not; jāne—I know; dadhimilk; muk—in the mouth; bālaḥ—child; na—not; attieats; saḥ—He; atra—here; kadācana—ever.

English translation of verse 1.17.24:

Śrī Yaśodā said: I have ten million cows. There is so much yogurt in the house I cannot move. I do not know why my little boy never drinks any of the yogurt here.

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