Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.21.16, 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 21 (The Story of Shri Narada) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.21.16
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
एवं तच्-छपतो राधे
गन्धर्व उपबर्हणः
बभूव गन्धर्व-पतिः
कल्प-मात्रं सुरालये
evaṃ tac-chapato rādhe
gandharva upabarhaṇaḥ
babhūva gandharva-patiḥ
kalpa-mātraṃ surālaye
evam—thus; tac-chapataḥ—fvrom that curse; rādhe—O Rādhā; gandharva—a gandharva; upabarhaṇaḥ—Upabarhaṇa; babhūva—became; gandharva-patiḥ—the leader of the gandharvas; kalpa-mātram—for a kalpa; surālaye—in the realm of the demigods.
English translation of verse 5.21.16:
O Rādhā, because of this curse Nārada became the gandharva Upabarhaṇa. For one kalpa he was the leader of the gandharvas in the world of the demigods.