Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.22.1, 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 22 (The Story of Shri Narada) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.22.1
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-भगवान् उवाच
कस्मै देयम् इदं गुह्यं
राग-रूपं मनोहरम्
बुद्ध्या विचारयन्न् इत्थं
गन्धर्व-नगरं ययौ
śrī-bhagavān uvāca
kasmai deyam idaṃ guhyaṃ
rāga-rūpaṃ manoharam
buddhyā vicārayann itthaṃ
gandharva-nagaraṃ yayau
śrī-bhagavān uvāca—the Supreme Personality of Godhead said; kasmai—to whom?; deyam—should be guiven; idam—this; guhyam—secret; rāga-rūpam—of the rāgas; manoharam—beautiful; buddhyā—with intelligence; vicārayan—considering; ittham—thus; gandharva-nagaram—to the city of the gandharvas; yayau—went.
English translation of verse 5.22.1:
The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Thinking, to whom should I give this beautiful and secret knowledge of music?", Nārada went to the city of the gandharvas.