Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 1.17.34, 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).
Verse 1.17.34
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
हरिर् विचिन्तयन्न् इत्थं
माता दण्डं प्रदास्यति
दधार तद्-बाल-रूपं
स्वच्छन्द-गतिर् ईश्वरः
harir vicintayann itthaṃ
mātā daṇḍaṃ pradāsyati
dadhāra tad-bāla-rūpaṃ
svacchanda-gatir īśvaraḥ
hariḥ—Lord Hari; vicintayan—thinking; ittham—thus; mātā—His mother; daṇḍam—a stick; pradāsyati—gave; dadhāra—manifested; tad-bāla-rūpam—that child's form; svacchanda-gatiḥ—independent; īśvaraḥ—Supreme Controller.
English translation of verse 1.17.34:
Lord Hari thought, "My mother will hit Me with a stick." The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who can do whatever He likes, then manifested the form of Prabhāvatī's son.