Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.18.22, 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 18 (Uddhava Hears the Gopis’ Words and Returns to Mathura) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.18.22
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-उद्धव उवाच
कथं लिखसि राधे त्वं
कथं दुःखं करोषि हि
सर्वं तस्मै वदिष्यामि
व्यथां त्वल्-लेखनं विना
śrī-uddhava uvāca
kathaṃ likhasi rādhe tvaṃ
kathaṃ duḥkhaṃ karoṣi hi
sarvaṃ tasmai vadiṣyāmi
vyathāṃ tval-lekhanaṃ vinā
śrī-uddhava uvāca—Śrī Uddhava said; katham—who?; likhasi—write; rādhe—O Rādhā; tvam—You; katham—how?; duḥkham—suffering; karoṣi—You do; hi—indeed; sarvam—all; tasmai—to Him; vadiṣyāmi—I will tell; vyathām—the suffering; tval-lekhanam—Your writing; vinā—without.
English translation of verse 5.18.22:
Śrī Uddhava said: O Rādhā, why must You write? Why must You be unhappy in this way? Even without You writing a letter, I will tell Kṛṣṇa everything of Your distress.