Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.18.7, 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:

सपत्नी-कृत-दोषेण
स्व-भर्तुर् विरहेन वा
अन्यत्र लग्न-चित्तेन
विमनाः किं मनोहरे

sapatnī-kṛta-doṣeṇa
sva-bhartur virahena vā
anyatra lagna-cittena
vimanāḥ kiṃ manohare

sapatnīby a co-wife; kṛtadone; doṣeṇa—by a fault; sva-bhartuḥ—of Your own brother; virahena—by separation; vā—or; anyatrasomewhere else; lagnaplaced; cittena—heart; vimanāḥ—unhappy; kim—why?; manohare—O beautiful one.

English translation of verse 2.18.7:

Did a co-wife fault You? Are You separated from Your brother? Does something else trouble Your heart? O beautiful one, why are You unhappy?

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