Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.5.9, 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).

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

श्री-विमल उवाच
ब्रह्मंस् त्वं किं न जानासि
तपसा दिव्य-चक्षुषा
तथाप्य् अहं वदिष्यामि
भवतो वाक्य-गोचरात्

śrī-vimala uvāca
brahmaṃs tvaṃ kiṃ na jānāsi
tapasā divya-cakṣuṣā
tathāpy ahaṃ vadiṣyāmi
bhavato vākya-gocarāt

śrī-vimala uvāca—Srī Vimala said; brahmaṃḥ—O brāhmaṇa; tvam—of you; kim—what?; na—not; jānāsi—you know; tapasā—by austerity; divya-cakṣuṣā—with spiritual eyes; tathāpi—still; aham—I; vadiṣyāmi—will tell; bhavataḥ—of you; vākya-gocarāt—in words.

English translation of verse 4.5.9:

Srī Vimala said: O brāhmaṇa, what do you not know? Because you have spiritual eyes attained by great austerities, you know everything. Still I will tell you my worry.

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