Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.15.11, 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 15 (Seeing Sri Radha) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

कम्सर्थ-क्र्त् कम्स-सखो ऽति-निर्घ्र्नो सो ऽयम् पुनह् किम् व्रज-मन्दलम् गतह् भर्तुर् म्र्तस्यपि हि पर-लौकिकिम् अस्मभिर् अद्यैव करिस्यति क्रियम्

kamsartha-krt kamsa-sakho 'ti-nirghrno so 'yam punah kim vraja-mandalam gatah bhartur mrtasyapi hi para-laukikim asmabhir adyaiva karisyati kriyam

kamsartha—for Kamsa's sake; krt—doing; kamsa-sakhah—friend of Kamsa; ati-nirghrnah—merciless; so ayamhe; punah—again; kim—what?; vraja-mandalam—to the circle of Vraja; gatah—gone; bhartuh—his master; mrtasya—dead; api—also; hi—indeed; para-laukikim—the next world; asmabhih—by us; adyanow; eva—indeed; karisyati—will do; kriyam—act.

English translation of verse 5.15.11:

Has Kamsa' cruel friend and servant, Akrura, come again to the circle of Vraja?

Will he now perform his dead master Kamsa's funeral rites for us?

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