Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.6.23, 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 5.6.23
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-वैश्या ऊचुः
भवेच् चेद् अत्र ते राज्यं
तावकान् स्मरतात् तदा
वयं तव प्रजा देव
राज्ये प्राप्ते न कः स्मरेत्
śrī-vaiśyā ūcuḥ
bhavec ced atra te rājyaṃ
tāvakān smaratāt tadā
vayaṃ tava prajā deva
rājye prāpte na kaḥ smaret
śrī-vaiśya ūcuḥ—the vaiśyas said; bhavec—may be; cet—if; atra—here; te—of You; rājyam—the kingdom; tāvakān—Yours; smaratāt—should remember; tadā—then; vayam—we; tava—of You; prajā—the citizens; deva—O Lord; rājye—in the kingdom; prāpte—attained; na—not; kaḥ—who?; smaret—will remember.
English translation of verse 5.6.23:
The vaiśyas said: If You become the king here, then please remember Your own people. We are Your subjects. O Lord, who, on attaining a kingdom, will forget his own people?