Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.14.13, 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 14 (The Meeting of King Nanda and Uddhava) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:

धिग् जिवनम् मे चयनम् च भोजनम् क्र्स्नम् विन पद्म-दलयतेक्सनम् चन्द्रम् विन भुमि-तले चकोरवज् जिवमि तस्यगमनचय भ्र्चम्

dhig jivanam me cayanam ca bhojanam krsnam vina padma-dalayateksanam candram vina bhumi-tale cakoravaj jivami tasyagamanacaya bhrcam

dhik—fie; jivanam—life; me—my; cayanam—sleeping; ca—and; bhojanam—eating; krsnam—Krsna; vinawithout; padmalotus; dalapetal; ayatalarge; iksanam—eyes; candram—moon; vina—without; bhumi-tale—on the earth; cakoravat—like a cakora bird; jivami—I live; tasya—of Him; agamana—the return; acaya—with the hope; bhrcam—great.

English translation of verse 5.14.13:

This life of eating and sleeping without Krsna, whose eyes are like great lotus petals. is wretched and miserable. I am like a cakora bird that cannot see the moon. I stay alive only by hoping that Krsna will return.

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