Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 3.5.20, 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).

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

इति श्रुत्वात्मजे गोपाः
सन्देहं न करोम्य् अहम्
वेद-वाक्यं ब्रह्म-वचः
प्रमाणं हि मही-तले

iti śrutvātmaje gopāḥ
sandehaṃ na karomy aham
veda-vākyaṃ brahma-vacaḥ
pramāṇaṃ hi mahī-tale

iti—thus; śrutvāhearing; atmaje—about his son; gopāḥthe gopas; sandeham—doubt; na—not; karomy—did; aham—I; veda-vākyam—the words of the Vedas; brahma-vacaḥ—the words of a brāhmaṇa; pramāṇam—evidence; hi—indeed; mahī-tale—on the earth.

English translation of verse 3.5.20:

When I heard Garga Muni say this about my son, I did not doubt his words.

The words of the Vedas and the words of a brāhmaṇa are the final proof of what is true in this world.

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