Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.6.27, 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:

यशोदा-नन्दयोः पुत्रीं
मायां नीत्वा पुरं ययौ
ववृधे गोकुले कृष्णो
गुप्तो ज्ञातो न कैर् नृभिः

yaśodā-nandayoḥ putrīṃ
māyāṃ nītvā puraṃ yayau
vavṛdhe gokule kṛṣṇo
gupto jñāto na kair nṛbhiḥ

yaśodā-nandayoḥ—of Nadna and Yaśodā; putrīm—the daughter; māyām—Māyā; nītvā—taking; puramto the city; yayau—went; vavṛdhe—increased; gokule—in Gokula; kṛṣṇaḥKṛṣṇa; guptaḥ—hidden; jñātaḥ—known; na—not; kair nṛbhiḥ—by anyone.

English translation of verse 4.6.27:

Then to Mathurā City he took Nanda's and Yaśodā's daughter, who was the goddess Māyā. As Kṛṣṇa grew up on Gokula, no one understood His real identity.

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