Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.14.22, 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:

एको ऽयम् मे सुतह् प्रप्तो न सुत बहवच् च मे सो ऽपि मम् जननिम् दिनम् ययौ त्यक्त्व दिग्-अन्तरम्

eko 'yam me sutah prapto na suta bahavac ca me so 'pi mam jananim dinam yayau tyaktva dig-antaram

ekah—one; ayamH; me—my; sutah—son; praptah—attained; na—not; sutamany sons; bahavah—many; ca—and; me—of me; sah—He; api—also; mam—me; jananim—mother; dinam—poor; yayau—goes; tyaktvaleaving; dig-antaram—far away.

English translation of verse 5.14.22:

I have only one son. I do not have many sons. Abandoning His poor mother, my son has gone away.

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