Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.2.3, 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 4 of Chapter 2 (The Story of the Gopis That Had Been Sages) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).
Verse 4.2.3
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
भार्याः पञ्च सहस्राणि
बभूवुस् तस्य मैथिल
कदाचिद् दैव-योगेन
धनं सर्वं क्षयं गतम्
bhāryāḥ pañca sahasrāṇi
babhūvus tasya maithila
kadācid daiva-yogena
dhanaṃ sarvaṃ kṣayaṃ gatam
bhāryāḥ—wives; pañca sahasrāṇi—five thousand; babhūvuḥ—were; tasya—of him; maithila—O king of Mithilā; kadācit—at a certain time; daiva-yogena—by destiny; dhanam—wealth; sarvam—all; kṣayam—to destruction; gatam—went.
English translation of verse 4.2.3:
O king of Mithilā, he had five thousand wives. One day all his wealth was destroyed by fate.