Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.6.15, 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:

जगृहुश् चन्दनं दिव्यं
किञ्चित् किञ्चिद् व्रजार्भकाः
त्रि-वक्राम् अथ तां कृष्णो
ऋज्वीं कर्तुं मनो दधे

jagṛhuś candanaṃ divyaṃ
kiñcit kiñcid vrajārbhakāḥ
tri-vakrām atha tāṃ kṛṣṇo
ṛjvīṃ kartuṃ mano dadhe

jagṛhuḥ—took; candanam—the sandal paste; divyam—splendid; kiñcit kiñcit—some; vrajārbhakāḥ—the boys of Vraja; tri-vakrām—the hunchback girl bewnt in three places; athathen; tām—to her; kṛṣṇaḥKṛṣṇa; ṛjvīm—a straight girl; kartum—to make; manaḥ—the mind; dadhe—placed.

English translation of verse 5.6.15:

Then the boys of Vraja also took some of the splendid sandal paste. At that moment Lord Kṛṣṇa decided to transform the hunchback girl bent in three places into a beautiful straight girl.

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