Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.5.14, 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 5 (Shri Krishna’s Entrance Into Mathura) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.5.14
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
नत्वा तं च तदाक्रूरः
कृत्वा नैमित्तिकं विधिम्
ज्ञात्वा कृष्णं परं ब्रह्म
विस्मितो रथम् आययौ
natvā taṃ ca tadākrūraḥ
kṛtvā naimittikaṃ vidhim
jñātvā kṛṣṇaṃ paraṃ brahma
vismito ratham āyayau
natvā—bowing down; tam—to Him; ca—and; tadā—then; akrūraḥ—Akrūra; kṛtvā—doing; naimittikam—regular; vidhim—duties; jñātvā—knowing; kṛṣṇam—Kṛṣṇa; param—the Supreme; brahma—Brahman; vismitaḥ—astonished; ratham—to the chariot; āyayau—went.
English translation of verse 5.5.14:
Bowing down, finishing his regular duties, and now acutely aware of Lord Kṛṣṇa's divinity, astonished Akrūra returned to the chariot.