Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 3.9.3, 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 9 (The Birth of Shri Giriraja) of Canto 3 (giriraja-khanda).
Verse 3.9.3
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-नारद उवाच
गोलोकोट्पत्ति-वृत्तन्तं
शृणु राजन् महा-मते
चतुष्-पदार्थ-दं नृणां
आद्य-लीला-समन्वितम्
śrī-nārada uvāca
golokoṭpatti-vṛttantaṃ
śṛṇu rājan mahā-mate
catuṣ-padārtha-daṃ nṛṇāṃ
ādya-līlā-samanvitam
śrī-nārada uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; goloka—of Goloka; uṭpatti—the birth; vṛttantam—the stoory; śṛṇu—hear; rājan—O king; mahā-mate—noble-hearted; catuṣ-padārtha-dam—granting the four goals of life; nṛṇām—of human beings; ādya-līlā-samanvitam—with the first pastimes.
English translation of verse 3.9.3:
Śrī Nārada said: O noble-hearted king, please hear the story of Goloka's birth, a story that brings to human beings the four goals of life, a story filled with transcendental pastimes.