Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 3.5.28, 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 3.5.28
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
भवता ज्ञाति-मुख्येन
सम्पद्-उन्मद-सालिना
न दत्ता वर-मुख्याय
कलुषं तव विद्यते
bhavatā jñāti-mukhyena
sampad-unmada-sālinā
na dattā vara-mukhyāya
kaluṣaṃ tava vidyate
bhavatā—by you; jñāti-mukhyena—the first person in the community; sampad-unmada-sālinā—mad with opulence; na—not; dattā—given; vara-mukhyāya—to a bridegroom; kaluṣam—fault; tava—of you; vidyate—will be.
English translation of verse 3.5.28:
If you, the first person in our community, who have now become maddened with your wealth and opulences, find yourself unable to give Her in marriage to a suitable bridegroom, the fault will be yours alone.