Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.11.6, 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 11 (The Stories of Kubja and Kuvalayapida) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.11.6
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
तपश् चक्रे शूर्पनखा
वर्षाणाम् अयुतं जले
ध्यायन्ती त्र्य्-अम्बकं देवं
श्री-रामं वरम् इच्छती
tapaś cakre śūrpanakhā
varṣāṇām ayutaṃ jale
dhyāyantī try-ambakaṃ devaṃ
śrī-rāmaṃ varam icchatī
tapaḥ—austerities; cakre—did; śūrpanakhā—Śūrpanakhā; varṣāṇām—of years; ayutam—ten thousand; jale—in the water; dhyāyantī—meditating; try-ambakaṃ devam—on Lord Śiva; śrī-rāmam—Lord Rāma; varam—husband; icchatī—wishing.
English translation of verse 5.11.6:
Wishing to get Lord Rāma as her husband, for ten thousand years Śūrpanakhā stayed underwater and meditated on Lord Śiva.