Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.10.1, 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 10 (The Stories of the Washerman, Weaver, and Florist) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

श्री-बहुलाश्व उवाच
श्री-कृष्ण-चरितं पुण्यं
मया तव मुखाच् छ्रुतम्
पुनः श्रोतुं मनश् चाद्य
तृषितो वा जलं गतः

śrī-bahulāśva uvāca
śrī-kṛṣṇa-caritaṃ puṇyaṃ
mayā tava mukhāc chrutam
punaḥ śrotuṃ manaś cādya
tṛṣito vā jalaṃ gataḥ

śrī-bahulāśva uvāca—Śrī Bahulāśva said; śrī-kṛṣṇa-caritam—Śrī Kṛṣṇa's pastimes; puṇyam—sacred; mayāby me; tava—of you; mukhāt—from the mouth; śrutam——heard; punaḥ—again; śrotum—to hear; manaḥ—heart; ca—and; adyanpow; tṛṣitaḥ—thirsty; vā—or; jalamto water; gataḥ—gone.

English translation of verse 5.10.1:

Śrī Bahulāśva said: Although my heart has already heard Lord Kṛṣṇa's sacred pastimes from your mouth, it thirsts to hear them again. Although it has already drunk this nectar, it thirsts to drink it again.

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