Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.12.8, 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 5.12.8
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
ब्रह्म-कर्म-परित्यक्त भवन्तो ब्रह्मनह् सुतह् मल्ल-युद्धम् क्सत्र-युद्धम् कथम् कुरुत दुर्जनह् ब्रह्म-कर्म
brahma-karma-parityakta bhavanto brahmanah sutah malla-yuddham ksatra-yuddham katham kuruta durjanah brahma-karma
parityakta—abandoned brahminical duties; bhavantah—you; brahmanah—of a brahmana; sutah—the sons; malla-yuddham—wrestling; ksatra-yuddham—ksatriya fighting; katham—why?; kuruta—do; durjanah—rogues.
English translation of verse 5.12.8:
Rogues, why do you, a brahmana's sons, reject your brahminical duties and engage in wrestling, a ksatriya's work.