Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.18.6, 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 18 (The Sight of Shri Krishnacandra) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

श्री-राधोवाच
विमनास् त्वं कथं भद्रे
वद मां गोपदेवते
मात्रा भार्त्रा ननान्द्रा वा
श्वश्रा क्रोधेन भर्त्सिता

śrī-rādhovāca
vimanās tvaṃ kathaṃ bhadre
vada māṃ gopadevate
mātrā bhārtrā nanāndrā vā
śvaśrā krodhena bhartsitā

śrī-rādhā uvāca—Śrī Rādhā said; vimanāḥunhappy; tvam—You; katham—why?; bhadre—O beautiful one; vadatell; mām—Me; gopadevate—O Gopadevatā; mātrāby Your mother; bhārtrā—brother; nanāndrā—sister-in-law; vā—or; śvaśrā—sister; krodhena—angrily; bhartsitā—rebuked.

English translation of verse 2.18.6:

Śrī Rādhā said: Beautiful one, why are You unhappy? O Gopadevatā, please tell Me. Did Your mother, brother, sister, or sister-in-law speak angry words to You?

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