Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.2.8, 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 4.2.8
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
धनं विना कथं चासां
विवाहो हा भविष्यति
भोजने यत्र सन्देहो
धनाशा तत्र कीदृशी
dhanaṃ vinā kathaṃ cāsāṃ
vivāho hā bhaviṣyati
bhojane yatra sandeho
dhanāśā tatra kīdṛśī
dhanam—welath; vinā—without; katham—how?; ca—and; āsām—of the girls; vivāhaḥ—wedding; hā—indeed; bhaviṣyati—will be; bhojane—in eatiung; yatra—where; sandehaḥ—doubt; dhana—of wealth; āśā—hope; tatra—there; kīdṛśī—like what?
English translation of verse 4.2.8:
How will my daughters marry if I have no wealth? If even the next meal is uncertain, where is the hope to gain wealth?