Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.5.5, 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 5 (The Story of the Ayodhya Women) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).
Verse 4.5.5
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
अपत्यं केन पुण्येन
भूयान् मे ऽत्र शुभं नृप
एवं चिन्तयतस् तस्य
बहवो वत्सरा गताः
apatyaṃ kena puṇyena
bhūyān me 'tra śubhaṃ nṛpa
evaṃ cintayatas tasya
bahavo vatsarā gatāḥ
apatyam—a child; kena—by what?; puṇyena—pious deed; bhūyān—may be; me—of me; atra—here; śubham—auspiciousness; nṛpa—O king; evam—thus; cintayataḥ—thinking; tasya—of him; bahavaḥ—many; vatsarā—years; gatāḥ—passed.
English translation of verse 4.5.5:
He spent many years wondering, "What pious deed with bring me a child?"