Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.6.13, 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 6 (The Story of the Ayodhya Women) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).

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

एकावशिष्टा कन्यापि
खं गता कंस-हस्ततः
एवं श्रुत्वा यदु-पुरान्
निर्गतो ऽहं शनैः शनैः

ekāvaśiṣṭā kanyāpi
khaṃ gatā kaṃsa-hastataḥ
evaṃ śrutvā yadu-purān
nirgato 'haṃ śanaiḥ śanaiḥ

ekā—one; avaśiṣṭā—remaining; kanyādaughter; api—also; khamto heaven; gatā—went; kaṃsa-hastataḥ—by Kaṃsa's hand; evam—thus; śrutvāhearing; yadu-purāt—from the city of the Yadus; nirgataḥ—come; aham—I; śanaiḥ śanaiḥ—very slowly.

English translation of verse 4.6.13:

One a daughter who, struck by Kaṃsa's hand, went to the heavenly planets, remains. Hearing this, I slowly left the Yadus' city.

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