Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.6.21, 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:

न जातो वसुदेवस्य
सकाशे ऽद्य हरिः परः
ऋषि-वाक्यं मृषा न स्यात्
कस्मै दास्यामि कन्यकाः

na jāto vasudevasya
sakāśe 'dya hariḥ paraḥ
ṛṣi-vākyaṃ mṛṣā na syāt
kasmai dāsyāmi kanyakāḥ

na—not; jātaḥborn; vasudevasya—of Vasudeva; sakāśe—in the presence; adyanow; hariḥthe Supreme Personality of Godhead; paraḥsupreme; ṛṣi-vākyam—the words of the sage; mṛṣāfalse; na—not; syāt—are; kasmai—to whom?; dāsyāmi—I will give; kanyakāḥ—my daughters.

English translation of verse 4.6.21:

Although the sage's words cannot be untrue, the Supreme Personality of Godhead has not taken birth as Vasudeva's son. To whom shall I give my daughters in marriage?

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