Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.1.2, 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 6 of Chapter 1 (Jarasandha’s Defeat) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).

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

श्रुतं तव मुखाद् ब्रह्मन्
मथुरा-खण्डम् अद्भुतम्
वद मां द्वारका-खण्डं
श्री-कृष्ण-चरितामृतम्

śrutaṃ tava mukhād brahman
mathurā-khaṇḍam adbhutam
vada māṃ dvārakā-khaṇḍaṃ
śrī-kṛṣṇa-caritāmṛtam

śrutam—heard; tava—of you; mukhāt—from the mouth; brahmanObrāhmaṇa; mathurā-khaṇḍam—the Mathura-kahnda; adbhutam—wonderful; vadatell; mām—me; dvārakā-khaṇḍam—the Dvārakā-khaṇḍa; śrī-kṛṣṇa-caritāmṛtam—filled with the nectar of Lord Kṛṣṇa's pastimes.

English translation of verse 6.1.2:

O brāhmaṇa, now that I have heard from your mouth the wonderful Mathurā-khaṇḍa, please tell me the Dvārakā-khaṇḍa, which is filled with the nectar of Lord Kṛṣṇa's transcendental pastimes.

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