Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.20.20, 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 20 (The Killing of Pralamba) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).
Verse 4.20.20
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
विना-पानिर् अजानन् वै गन्धर्वः सुमनाम्सि च ग्र्हित्वा सो ऽसुरो जातो गन्धर्वत्वम् विहाय तत्
vinā-pānir ajānan vai gandharvaḥ sumanāmsi ca grhitvā so 'suro jāto gandharvatvam vihāya tat
vinā—a vina; pāniḥ—in his hand; ajānan—unaware; vai—indeed; gandharvaḥ—the gandharva; sumanāmsi—sumanah flowers; ca—and; grhitvā—taking; saḥ—he; asuraḥ—a demon; jātaḥ—born; gandharvatvam—his gandharvahood; vihāya—leaving behind; tat—that.
English translation of verse 4.20.20:
Unaware of the curse, the gandharva, vinā in hand, took some of the sumanaḥ
flowers there. At once he left his gandharva body and became a demon.