Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.4.7, 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 4 (The Story of the Kaushala Women) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).

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

खे वायौ चाग्नि-जलयोर्
मह्यां ज्योतिर् दिशासु च
द्रुमेषु जन-वृन्देषु
तासां कृष्णो हि लक्ष्यते

khe vāyau cāgni-jalayor
mahyāṃ jyotir diśāsu ca
drumeṣu jana-vṛndeṣu
tāsāṃ kṛṣṇo hi lakṣyate

khe—in space; vāyau—in air; ca—and; agniin fire; jalayoḥ—in water; mahyām—in the mahat-tattva; jyotiḥin light; diśāsu—in the directions; ca—and; drumeṣu—in the trees; jana-vṛndeṣu—in the people; tāsām—of them; kṛṣṇaḥKṛṣṇa; hi—indeed; lakṣyate—is seen.

English translation of verse 4.4.7:

When they looked at the different objects of the creation made of ether, air, fire, and water, when they looked in the different directions, when they looked at the luminaries in the sky, when they looked at trees, and when they looked at people, they did not see them. They only saw Kṛṣṇa.

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