Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.17.30, 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 5.17.30
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
स्रि-सख्य उचुह् कर्पन्येन यचो हन्ति क्रुध गुन-गनोदयम् धननि व्यसनैर् लोकह् कपतेनैव मित्रतम् स्रि-सख्य
sri-sakhya ucuh karpanyena yaco hanti krudha guna-ganodayam dhanani vyasanair lokah kapatenaiva mitratam sri-sakhya
ucuh—the gopis that had been friends of ther goddess of fortune said; karpanyena—by being in a pitiable condition; yacah—fame; hanti—kills; krudha—by anger; guna-ganodayam—virtues; dhanani—wealth; vyasanaih—by calamities; lokah—the world; kapatena—by treachery; eva—indeed; mitratam -friendship.
English translation of verse 5.17.30:
The gopis that had been friends of the goddess of fortune said: Being in a wretched condition destroys one's fame. Anger destroys virtues. Misfortune destroys wealth. Treachery destroys friendship.