Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 1.19.29, 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).
Verse 1.19.29
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
कदाचिद् देवलो नाम
मुनीन्द्रो वेद-पारगः
नग्नौ दृष्ट्वा च ताव् आह
दुष्ट-शीलौ गत-स्मृती
kadācid devalo nāma
munīndro veda-pāragaḥ
nagnau dṛṣṭvā ca tāv āha
duṣṭa-śīlau gata-smṛtī
kadācit—one time; devalaḥ—Devala; nāma—named; muni-indraḥ—the king of sages; veda—of the Vedas; pāra—to the farther shore; gaḥ—gone; nagnau—the two naked men; dṛṣṭvā—seeing; ca—and; tau—to them; āha—said; duṣṭa-śīlau—wicked; gata-smṛtī—forgetful.
English translation of verse 1.19.29:
One day the great sage named Devala, who had gone to the farther shore of the Vedas, saw the two degenerate, naked, forgetful men and spoke to them.