Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.5.10, 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 5 (The Story of the Ayodhya Women) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).
Verse 4.5.10
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
आनपत्येन दुःखेन
व्याप्तो ऽहं मुनि-सत्तम
किं करोमि तपो दानं
वद येन भवेत् प्रजा
ānapatyena duḥkhena
vyāpto 'haṃ muni-sattama
kiṃ karomi tapo dānaṃ
vada yena bhavet prajā
ānapatyena-with childlessness; duḥkhena—with happiness; vyāptaḥ—pervaded; aham—i am; muni-sattama—O best of sages; kim—what?; karomi—will I do; tapaḥ—austerity; dānam—charity; vada—tell; yena—by which; bhavet—may be; prajā—a child.
English translation of verse 4.5.10:
Because I have no child I am filled with grief. O best of sages, please describe the austerity or charity that will bring me a child.