Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.2.12, 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).

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

नन्द-राजस्य वलये
मङ्गलो दैन्य-पीडिताः
विचिन्त्य प्रेषयाम् आस
कन्यकाश् चारु-लोचनाः

nanda-rājasya valaye
maṅgalo dainya-pīḍitāḥ
vicintya preṣayām āsa
kanyakāś cāru-locanāḥ

nanda-rājasya—of King Nanda; valaye—in the circle; maṅgalaḥmangala; dainya-pīḍitāḥ—suffering in poverty; vicintyaconsidering; preṣayām āsa—sent; kanyakāḥ—daughters; cāru-locanāḥ—beautiful-eyed.

English translation of verse 4.2.12:

After some thought, the pauper Maṅgala sent his beautiful-eyed daughters to King Nanda's circle.

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