Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.12.2, 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 12 (Pancajana’s Previous Birth) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.12.2
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
स्रि-नरद उवच रजन् पुरमरवत्यम् उतथ्यो ऽस्ति मह-मुनिह् तस्यभवन् पन्च पुत्रह् कमदेव-सम-प्रभह् स्रि-नरद
sri-narada uvaca rajan puramaravatyam utathyo 'sti maha-munih tasyabhavan panca putrah kamadeva-sama-prabhah sri-narada
uvaca—Sri Narada said; rajan—O king; pura—previously; amaravatyam—- in Amaravati; utathyah—Utathya; asti—is; maha-munih—a great sage; tasya—of him; abhavan—were; pa 24ca—five; putrah—sons; kamadeva-sama-prabhah—handsome as Kamadeva.
English translation of verse 5.12.2:
Sri Narada said: O king, in ancient times there was a great sage named Utathya, who lived in Amaravati. He had five sons handsome as Kamadeva.