Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.19.13, 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:

गत-व्यथे ह्य् अकरुणे
यशोदे हे व्रजेश्वरि
यष्ट्या निर्भर्त्सितो बालस्
त्वया बद्धो घट-क्षयात्

gata-vyathe hy akaruṇe
yaśode he vrajeśvari
yaṣṭyā nirbhartsito bālas
tvayā baddho ghaṭa-kṣayāt

gatagone; vyathe—anxiety; hi—indeed; akaruṇe—unkind; yaśode—O Yaśodā; he—O; vrajeśvari—queen of Vraja; yaṣṭyā—with a stick; nirbhartsitaḥ—punished; bālaḥ—boy; tvayā—by you; baddhaḥ—bound; ghaṭaa jug; kṣayāt—because of breaking.

English translation of verse 1.19.13:

O cold, merciless Yaśodā, O queen of Vraja, you beat this boy with a stick and tied Him up only because He broke a clay jug.

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