Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.12.7, 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 12 (Pancajana’s Previous Birth) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.12.7
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
क्र्सि-गो-रक्स्य-वनिज्यम् वैच्य-कर्म स्व-भव-जम् परिचर्यत्मकम् कर्म चुद्रस्यपि स्व-भव-जम्
krsi-go-raksya-vanijyam vaicya-karma sva-bhava-jam paricaryatmakam karma cudrasyapi sva-bhava-jam
krsi—plowing; gah—cows; raksya—protection; vanijyam—trade; vaicya—vaicya; karma-duty; sva-bhava-jam—born of his own nature; paricarya—service; atmakam—nature; karma—duty; cudrasya—of the cudra; api—also; sva-bhava-jam—born of his own nature.
English translation of verse 5.12.7:
Farming, cow-protection, and business are the qualities of work for the vaicyas, and for the cudras there is labor and service to others *.