Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.10.4, 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).
Verse 5.10.4
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-नारद उवाच
त्रेता-युगे त्व् अयोध्यायां
राम-राज्ये विदेह-राट्
चरणं शृण्वतां कश्चिद्
रजको ह्य् अवदत् प्रियाम्
śrī-nārada uvāca
tretā-yuge tv ayodhyāyāṃ
rāma-rājye videha-rāṭ
caraṇaṃ śṛṇvatāṃ kaścid
rajako hy avadat priyām
śrī-nārada uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; tretā-yuge—in Tretā-yuga; tv—indeed; ayodhyāyām—in Ayodhyā; rāma-rājye—in Lord Rāma's kingdom; videha-rāṭ—O king of Videha; cārāṇām—of ther king's spies; śṛṇvatām—hearing; kaścit—someone; rajakaḥ—washerman; hi—indeed; avadat—said; priyām—to his wife.
English translation of verse 5.10.4:
Śrī Nārada said: O king of Videha, in Tretā-yuga, in Lord Rāma's kingdom, in Ayodhyā, as Lord Rāma's spies overheard, this same washerman said to his wife: