Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.6.12, 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 5 of Chapter 6 (Seeing Shri Mathura) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.6.12
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
अद्यापि कंस-दास्य् अस्मि
सम्प्राप्तं तव चाग्रतः
हस्ति-षुण्ड-दण्ड-समे
भुज-दण्डे ऽस्ति मे मनः
adyāpi kaṃsa-dāsy asmi
samprāptaṃ tava cāgrataḥ
hasti-ṣuṇḍa-daṇḍa-same
bhuja-daṇḍe 'sti me manaḥ
adya—now; api—also; kaṃsa-dāsy—Kaṃsa's maidservant; asmi—I am; samprāptam—attained; tava—of You; ca—and; agrataḥ—the presence; hasti—an elephant's; ṣuṇḍa-daṇḍa—trunk; same—like; bhuja-daṇḍe—two arms; asti—is; me—of me; manaḥ—the mind.
English translation of verse 5.6.12:
I am Kaṃsa's maidservant, but now that I have met You I can think only of Your two broad arms like two great elephant's trunks.