Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 3.5.5, 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 3 of Chapter 5 (The Dispute Among the Gopas) of Canto 3 (giriraja-khanda).
Verse 3.5.5
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
गौर-वर्णा यशोदा त्वं
नन्द त्वं गौर-वर्ण-धृक्
अयं जात कृष्ण-वर्णा
एतत्-कुल-विलक्षणम्
gaura-varṇā yaśodā tvaṃ
nanda tvaṃ gaura-varṇa-dhṛk
ayaṃ jāta kṛṣṇa-varṇā
etat-kula-vilakṣaṇam
gaura-varṇa—fair; yaśodā—Yaśodā; tvam—you; nanda—Nanda; tvam—you; gaura-varṇa-dhṛk—fair; ayam—He; jāta—born; kṛṣṇa-varṇā—dark; etat-kula—in this family; vilakṣaṇam—unusual.
English translation of verse 3.5.5:
O Yaśodā, your complexion is fair. O Nanda, your complexion is also fair. This boy is very dark. He is different from the rest of the family.