Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.17.6, 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 17 (The Gopis Describe Their Remembrance of Sri Krsna) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.17.6
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
स्रि-पर्सदख्य उचुह् जतम् विरह-जम् दुह्खम् नन्यो वेत्ति कदचन यथ कन्तक-विद्धग्गो विद्वन् व विद्ध-कन्तकह् स्रि-पर्सदख्य
sri-parsadakhya ucuh jatam viraha-jam duhkham nanyo vetti kadacana yatha kantaka-viddhaggo vidvan va viddha-kantakah sri-parsadakhya
ucuh—the g associates said; jatam—manifested; viraha-jam—born from separation; duhkham—suffering; na—not; anyah—another; vetti—knows; kadacana—ever; yatha—as; kantaka-viddhaggah—limbs wounded by throns; vidvan—a wise man; va—or; viddha-kantakah—wounded by thorns.
English translation of verse 5.17.6:
The gopi associates said: No one else can understand how we suffer in Krsna's absence. Only a person who has been pricked by thorns can understand the pain of being pricked.