Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.17.15, 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).

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

स्रि-ललित-युथ उवच रसभिसेकम् विनिवर्य मन्थर चकर विघ्नम् किल कोसले पुरे कुब्जैव सेयम् मथुर-पुरे गत कुब्जैव किम् किम् न करोति गोपिकह् स्रि-ललित-युथ

sri-lalita-yutha uvaca rasabhisekam vinivarya manthara cakara vighnam kila kosale pure kubjaiva seyam mathura-pure gata kubjaiva kim kim na karoti gopikah sri-lalita-yutha

uvaca—the groups of gopis headed by Sri Lalita said; ramaof Rama; abhisekam—the coronation-bathing; vinivarya—stopping; mantharaManthara; cakaradid; vighnam—obstacle; kilaindeed; kosale pure—in Ayodhya; kubjaKubja; eva—indeed; sa iyamshe; mathura-pure—in Mathura City; gatagone; kubja—Kubja; eva—indeed; kim—what?; kim—what?; na—not; karotidoes; gopikah—the gopis.

English translation of verse 5.17.15:

The groups of gopis headed by Sri Lalita said: The girl Kubja in Mathura City had been Manthara in Ayodhya, where she stopped the coronation of Lord Ramacandra. O gopis, what offense had Kubja not committed?

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