Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.14.18, 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).
Verse 5.14.18
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
विहय लज्जम् घ्र्नय सुतस्य स पप्रच्छ सर्वम् कुचलम् तदोद्धवम् अप्रोक्स्य वस्त्रेन द्र्ग्-अच्रु-सन्ततिम् स्थिते च नन्दे हरि-भव-विह्वले
vihaya lajjam ghrnaya sutasya sa papraccha sarvam kucalam tadoddhavam aproksya vastrena drg-acru-santatim sthite ca nande hari-bhava-vihvale
vihaya—abandoning; lajjam—shame; ghrnaya—with tenderness; sutasya—of her son; sa—she; papraccha—asked; sarvam—all; kucalam—welfare; tada—then; uddhavam—Uddhava; aproksya—sprinkling; vastrena—with garments; drg-acru-santatim—many tears; sthite—situated; ca—and; nande—Nanda; hari-bhava-vihvale—overcome with love for Krsna.
English translation of verse 5.14.18:
Rejecting all shyness, and overcome with love for her son, she asked Uddhava everything about Krsna's well-being. Meanwhile Nanda was overcome with love.
He wept, drenching his garments with tears from his eyes.