Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.4.24, 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 4 (The Liberation of Vatsasura) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).
Verse 2.4.24
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-बहुलाश्व उवाच
अहो पूर्वं सु-कृत-कृत्
को ऽयं वत्सासुरो मुने
श्री-कृष्णे लीनतां प्राप्ता
श्री-प्रपूर्णे परात् परे
śrī-bahulāśva uvāca
aho pūrvaṃ su-kṛta-kṛt
ko 'yaṃ vatsāsuro mune
śrī-kṛṣṇe līnatāṃ prāptā
śrī-prapūrṇe parāt pare
śrī-bahulāśvaḥ uvāca—Śrī Bahulāśva said; ahaḥ—Oh; pūrvam—previous; su-kṛta-kṛt—great pious deeds done; kaḥ—what?; ayam—this; vatsāsuraḥ—Vatsāsura; mune—O sage; śrī-kṛṣṇe—in Śrī Kṛṣṇa; līnatām—entering; prāptā—attained; śrī-prapūrṇe—the full Supreme Personality of Godhead; parāt—than the greatest; pare—greater.
English translation of verse 2.4.24:
Śrī Bahulāśva said: O sage, what pious deeds did Vatsāsura do in his previous life so that now he is able to enter Lord Kṛṣṇa, the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is greater than the greatest?