Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.2.40, 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 2 of Chapter 2 (Description of Giriraja Govardhana’s Birth) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).
Verse 2.2.40
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
एवं विचार्य मनसा
भूरि भारं ददौ करे
तदा मुनिश् च श्रान्तो ऽभूद्
भूत-पूर्वं गत-स्मृतिः
evaṃ vicārya manasā
bhūri bhāraṃ dadau kare
tadā muniś ca śrānto 'bhūd
bhūta-pūrvaṃ gata-smṛtiḥ
evam—thus; vicārya—thinking; manasā—in his mind; bhūri—great; bhāram—burden; dadau—gave; kare—on the hand; tadā—then; muniś—the sage; ca—and; śrāntaḥ—exhausted; abhūt—became; bhūta-pūrvam—done before; gata—gone; smṛtiḥ—memory.
English translation of verse 2.2.40:
Thinking this in his mind, Govardhana made himself very heavy in the sage's hand. Overcome with exhaustion, the sage could not remember what had happened before.