Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.6.11, 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 6 (Seeing Shri Mathura) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

श्री-सैरन्ध्र्य् उवाच
दास्य् अस्मि सुन्दर-वर
कुब्जा नाम महा-मते
मद्-धस्तोत्थं च पाटीरं
जातं भोज-पतेः प्रियम्

śrī-sairandhry uvāca
dāsy asmi sundara-vara
kubjā nāma mahā-mate
mad-dhastotthaṃ ca pāṭīraṃ
jātaṃ bhoja-pateḥ priyam

śrī-sairandhry uvāca—the serving-girl said; dāsy—a maidsevant; asmi—I am; sundara-varaO most handsome of men; kubjāKubjā; nāmanamed; mahā-mate—O noble-hearted one; mad-dhastottham—made by my own hand; ca—and; pāṭīram—sandal paste; jātam—born; bhoja-pateḥ—of the Bhoja king Kaṃsa; priyam—favorite.

English translation of verse 5.6.11:

The maidservant said: O most handsome of men, I am a maidservant. O noble-hearted one, My name is Kubjā. I made this sandal paste with my own hand.

Kaṃsa, the king of the Bhojas, likes it very much.

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