Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.9.7, 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 9 (The Happiness of the Yadus) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.9.7
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
नन्द-राजं गोप-गणैः
स्व-गृहान् गन्तुम् उद्यतम्
नत्वा तं स-बलः प्राह
मोहयन्न् इव मायया
nanda-rājaṃ gopa-gaṇaiḥ
sva-gṛhān gantum udyatam
natvā taṃ sa-balaḥ prāha
mohayann iva māyayā
nanda-rājam—King Nanda; gopa-gaṇaiḥ—with the gopas; sva-gṛhān—own homes; gantum—to go; udyatam—prepared; natvā—bowing; tam—to him; sa-balaḥ—with Balarāma; prāha—said; mohayann—bewildering; iva—as if; māyayā—with His illusory potency.
English translation of verse 5.9.7:
Then, bewildering them with Their illusory potency, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma bowed down before King Nanda and ther gopas, who were now eager to return to theor homes. Kṛṣṇa said to them: