Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.2.48, 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 2.2.48
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-पुलस्त्य उवाच
गिरे त्वयाति-धृष्टेन
न कृतो मे मनोरथः
तस्मात् तु टिल-मात्रं हि
नित्यं त्वं क्षिणत्वं व्रज
śrī-pulastya uvāca
gire tvayāti-dhṛṣṭena
na kṛto me manorathaḥ
tasmāt tu ṭila-mātraṃ hi
nityaṃ tvaṃ kṣiṇatvaṃ vraja
śrī-pulastyaḥ uvāca—Śrī Pulastya said; gire—O mountain; tvayā—by you; ati-dhṛṣṭena—very arrogant; na—not; kṛtaḥ—done; me—to me; manorathaḥ—desire; tasmāt—therefore; tu—indeed; ṭila-mātram—the size of a sesame seed; hi—indeed; nityam—always; tvam—you; kṣiṇatvam—diminution; vraja—go.
English translation of verse 2.2.48:
Śrī Pulastya said: O arrogant mountain, you would not fulfill my desire!
Therefore every day you will become smaller by the size of a sesame seed.