Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 3.9.41, 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).

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

किं वर्धसे भो प्रच्छिन्नं
लोकम् आच्छाद्य तिष्ठसि
किं वा न चैते वसितुं
तच्-छान्तिम् अकरोद् धरिः

kiṃ vardhase bho pracchinnaṃ
lokam ācchādya tiṣṭhasi
kiṃ vā na caite vasituṃ
tac-chāntim akarod dhariḥ

kim—why?; vardhase—do you expand; bhaḥ—O; pracchinnam—covered; lokam—realm; ācchādyacoving; tiṣṭhasi—you stand; kim—why?; vā—or; na—not; ca—and; ete—they; vasitum—to reside; tat-śāntim—peace; akarot—did; hariḥ—Kṛṣṇa.

English translation of verse 3.9.41:

He said, "Why do You expand so much? You have covered the entire realm!

Why do you not stop at once?" In this way Kṛṣṇa stopped the mountain from growing any further.

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