Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.8.1, 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 8 (Description of Seeing Lord Krishna) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).
Verse 2.8.1
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-नारद उवाच
अदृष्ट्वा वत्सकान् एत्य
वत्सपान् पुलिने हरिः
उभौ विचिन्वान् विपिने
मेने कर्म विधेः कृतम्
śrī-nārada uvāca
adṛṣṭvā vatsakān etya
vatsapān puline hariḥ
ubhau vicinvān vipine
mene karma vidheḥ kṛtam
śrī-nārada uvāca—Śrī Nārada said: ; adṛṣṭvā—not seeing; vatsakān—the calves; etya—going; vatsapān—to the gopas; puline—on the shore; hariḥ—Kṛṣṇa; ubhau—both; vicinvān—searching; vipine—in the forest; mene—thought; karma—the work; vidheḥ—of Brahmā; kṛtam—done.
English translation of verse 2.8.1:
Śrī Nārada said: Not seeing the calves, returning to the riverbank and not seeing the gopas, and then searching in the forest for them both, Kṛṣṇa thought, "This must be Brahmā's work."