Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.21.18, 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 21 (The Story of Shri Narada) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

पुनर् ब्रह्मा तं शशाप
त्वं शूद्रो भव दुर्मते
अथासौ ब्रह्म-शापेन
दासी-पुत्रो बभूव ह

punar brahmā taṃ śaśāpa
tvaṃ śūdro bhava durmate
athāsau brahma-śāpena
dāsī-putro babhūva ha

punaḥ—again; brahmāBrahmā; tam—him; śaśāpa—cursed; tvam—you; śūdraḥa sudra; bhavabecome; durmate—O fool; athathen; asau—he; brahma- śāpena—by Brahmā's curse; dāsī-putraḥ—a maidservant's son; babhūva—became; ha—indeed.

English translation of verse 5.21.18:

Again Brahmā cursed him, "Fool, become a śūdra!" By Brahmā's curse he then became a maidservant's son.

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