Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.13.12, 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 13 (The Story of the Demigoddesses) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).

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

परिपूर्णतमः साक्षाच्
छ्री-कृष्णो नान्य एव हि
एक-कार्यार्थम् आगत्य
कोटि-कार्यं चकार ह

paripūrṇatamaḥ sākṣāc
chrī-kṛṣṇo nānya eva hi
eka-kāryārtham āgatya
koṭi-kāryaṃ cakāra ha

paripūrṇatamaḥ—the original Supreme Personality of Godhead; sākṣātdirectly; śrī-kṛṣṇaḥŚrī Kṛṣṇa; na—not; anyaḥanother; eva—indeed; hi—indeed; eka-kāryārtham—for one purpose; āgatya—coming; koṭi-kāryam—millions of purposes; cakāradid; ha—indeed.

English translation of verse 4.13.12:

Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and no one else, is the original Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Coming to this world to do one thing, He did millions of other things as well.

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