Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.14.27, 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 14 (Description of Kaliya’s Story) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:

मीनान् सु-दुःखितान् दृष्ट्वा
दुःख-हा दीन-वत्सलः
तस्मै शापं ददौ क्रुद्धः
शौभरिर् मुनि-सत्तमः

mīnān su-duḥkhitān dṛṣṭvā
duḥkha-hā dīna-vatsalaḥ
tasmai śāpaṃ dadau kruddhaḥ
śaubharir muni-sattamaḥ

mīnān—the fish; su-duḥkhitān—very unhappy; dṛṣṭvāseeing; duḥkha-hā—the destroyer of unhappiness; dīna-vatsalaḥkind to the unhappy; tasmai—to him; śāpam—a curse; dadau—gave; kruddhaḥ—angry; śaubhariḥ—Śaurabhi; muni-sattamaḥthe best of sages.

English translation of verse 2.14.27:

Seeing the fish stricken with grief, the great sage Śaurabhi Muni, who was kind to the suffering and eager to stop their troubles, became angry and cursed Garuḍa.

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