Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 1.18.15, 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 18 (Vision of the Universal Form) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).
Verse 1.18.15
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-यसोदोवाच
कस्मान् मृदं भक्षितवान् रसज्ञो
भवान् वयस्याश् च वदन्ति साक्षात्
ज्यायान् बलो ऽयं वदति प्रसिद्धं
मा एवम् अर्थं न जहाति नेष्टुम्
śrī-yasodovāca
kasmān mṛdaṃ bhakṣitavān rasajño
bhavān vayasyāś ca vadanti sākṣāt
jyāyān balo 'yaṃ vadati prasiddhaṃ
mā evam arthaṃ na jahāti neṣṭum
śrī-yasodā uvāca—Śrī Yaśodā said; kasmāt—why?; mṛdam—clay; bhakṣitavān—ate; rasajñaḥ—who knows what is good to eat; bhavān—You; vayasyāḥ—friends; ca—also; vadanti—say; sākṣāt—directly; jyāyān—elder brother; balaḥ—Balarāma; ayam—He; vadati—says; prasiddham—proved; mā—O mother; evam—in this way; artham—meaning; na—not; jahāti—abandons; neṣṭum—clay.
English translation of verse 1.18.15:
Śrī Yaśodā said: Why did You, who know what is good to eat, eat clay? Your friends say You did. Your elder brother Balarāma said, "O mother, it is true. He would not leave the clay."