Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.1.29, 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 4 of Chapter 1 (The Story of the Personified Vedas) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).
Verse 4.1.29
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-मुनिर् उवाच
गोप्यः परमहांसो ऽहं
कृत-कृत्यो हि निष्क्रियः
तस्मान् मुखे मे दातव्यं
स्वं स्वं चाप्य् अशनं करैः
śrī-munir uvāca
gopyaḥ paramahāṃso 'haṃ
kṛta-kṛtyo hi niṣkriyaḥ
tasmān mukhe me dātavyaṃ
svaṃ svaṃ cāpy aśanaṃ karaiḥ
śrī-munir uvāca—the sage said; gopyaḥ—O gopīs; paramahāṃsaḥ—a paramahamsa; aham—i am; kṛta-kṛtyaḥ—attained thre goal of life; hi—indeed; niṣkriyaḥ—without material activities; tasmān—therefore; mukhe—in the mouth; me—of me; dātavyam—should be given; svam svam—own; ca—and; api—also; aśanam—food; karaiḥ—by the hands.
English translation of verse 4.1.29:
The sage said: O gopīs, I am a paramahaṃsa. I have attained the highest goal in life. I never do any material action. For this reason each of you should with her own hand place in my mouth the food she has brought.