Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.3.31, 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 5 of Chapter 3 (Akrura’s Arrival) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

काश्चित् समर्थस् तु परस्परं वचः
समेत्य राजन् युगपत् सखी-जनम्
ऊचुः स्खलद्-गद्गद-कण्ठ-वाचः
स्वतः स्रवद्-बाष्प-कला-वहद्-दृशः

kāścit samarthas tu parasparaṃ vacaḥ
sametya rājan yugapat sakhī-janam
ūcuḥ skhalad-gadgada-kaṇṭha-vācaḥ
svataḥ sravad-bāṣpa-kalā-vahad-dṛśaḥ

kāścit—some; samarthaḥable; tu—indeed; parasparam—among themselves; vacaḥwords; sametya—meeting; rājanO king; yugapatat the same moment; sakhī-janam—to their friends; ūcuḥ—said; skhalad-gadgada-kaṇṭha-vācaḥtheir throats filled with broken words; svataḥ—personally; sravatflowing; bāṣpatears; kalādrops; vahat—flowing; dṛśaḥ—eyes.

English translation of verse 5.3.31:

O king, some met and talked among themselves, their throats choked with stuttering words and their eyes with streams of tears.

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