Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.19.5, 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 19 (Breaking of the Two Arjuna Trees) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

हैयङ्गवीनं सततं नवीनं
याचन् स मातुर् मधुरं ब्रुवन् सः
आदाय हस्ते ऽश्मसुतं रुषा सु-धीर्
बिभेद कृष्णो दधि-मन्थ-पात्रम्

haiyaṅgavīnaṃ satataṃ navīnaṃ
yācan sa mātur madhuraṃ bruvan saḥ
ādāya haste 'śmasutaṃ ruṣā su-dhīr
bibheda kṛṣṇo dadhi-mantha-pātram

haiyaṅgavīnam—butter; satatam—repeatedly; navīnam—fresh; yācan—begging; saḥ—He; mātuḥ—of His mother; madhuram—sweetly; bruvan—saying; saḥ—He; ādāyataking; haste—in His hand; aśmasutam—emerald; ruṣāwith anger; su-dhīḥ—intelligent; bibheda—broke; kṛṣṇaḥKṛṣṇa; dadhiyogurt; manthachurning; pātram—jug.

English translation of verse 1.19.5:

After again and again begging His mother for some fresh butter, intelligent Kṛṣṇa finally took an emerald in His hand and angrily broke the yogurt-churn.

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