Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.21.30, 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 21 (The Story of Shri Narada) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

रागा वयं वेद-पुरे
वसामः सर्वदा मुने
अङ्ग-भङ्गा वयं जाताः
कारणं शृणु मानद

rāgā vayaṃ veda-pure
vasāmaḥ sarvadā mune
aṅga-bhaṅgā vayaṃ jātāḥ
kāraṇaṃ śṛṇu mānada

rāgās-rāgas; vayam—we are; veda-pure—in the city of the Vedas; vasāmaḥ—we reside; sarvadāalways; mune—O sage; aṅga-bhaṅgādeformed; vayam—we; jātāḥ—born; kāraṇam—the reason; śṛṇu—please hear; mānadaO gentle and humble one.

English translation of verse 5.21.30:

O sage, we are rāgas and we live in the city of Veda-nagara. O gentle and humble one, please hear how we became deformed in this way.

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