Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.4.10, 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).
Verse 4.4.10
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
जडा जडं न जनन्त्यो
जडोन्मत्त-पिशाच-वात्
अब्रुवन्त्यो ब्रुवन्त्यो वा
गत-लज्जा गत-व्यथाः
jaḍā jaḍaṃ na janantyo
jaḍonmatta-piśāca-vāt
abruvantyo bruvantyo vā
gata-lajjā gata-vyathāḥ
jaḍāḥ—inert; jaḍam—the inert; na—not; janantyaḥ—undersatnding; jaḍonmatta-piśāca-vāt—as if haunted by a ghost; abruvantyaḥ—not speaking; bruvantyaḥ—speaking; vā—or; gata-lajjā—without embarrassment; gata-vyathāḥ—without care.
English translation of verse 4.4.10:
Sometimes they were stunned, sometimes they could not understand that inanimate objects were actually not alive, sometimes they were silent, and sometimes they spoke on and on without care or shyness.