Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.17.18, 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 17 (The Gopis Describe Their Remembrance of Sri Krsna) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

स्रि-अस्त-सख्य उचुह् विक्स्य नन्द-सुतम् अग्ग सुन्दरम् नेत्रम् अद्य न जगद् विपच्यति नन्द-रज-तनये पुरिम् स्थिते किम् भविस्यति वदचु नस् त्वरम् स्रि-अस्त-सख्यह्

sri-asta-sakhya ucuh viksya nanda-sutam agga sundaram netram adya na jagad vipacyati nanda-raja-tanaye purim sthite kim bhavisyati vadacu nas tvaram sri-asta-sakhyah

ucuh—the eight gopi friends said; viksyaseeing; nanda-sutam—Krsna; agga—O noble one; sundaram—handsome; netram—the eye; adyanow; na—not; jagatthe universe; vipacyati—sees; nanda-raja-tanaye—on Krsna; purim—the city; sthite—situated; kim—what?; bhavisyati—will be; vadaplease tell; acu—at once; nah—to us; tvaram—quickly.

English translation of verse 5.17.18:

The eight gopi friends said: Today our eyes see only the handsome son of King Nanda and they cannot see anything of the material world. Now that Krsna is in Mathura City, what will happen next? O gentle Uddhava, please tell us at once.

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