Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verses 6.2.17-18, 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 6 of Chapter 2 (Residence in Shri Dvaraka) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).

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

शयनान्ते हरेः साक्षाद्-
दर्शनं मे भवत्व् अलम्
यो मध्ये बोधयेन् मां वै
शयनं त्व् अप्य् अचेतनम्
स मया दृष्ट-मत्रस् तु
भास्मी-भवतु तत्-क्षणात्
तथा च चोक्तः सुष्वाप
राजा कृत-युगे पुरा

śayanānte hareḥ sākṣād-
darśanaṃ me bhavatv alam
yo madhye bodhayen māṃ vai
śayanaṃ tv apy acetanam
sa mayā dṛṣṭa-matras tu
bhāsmī-bhavatu tat-kṣaṇāt
tathā ca coktaḥ suṣvāpa
rājā kṛta-yuge purā

śayanānte—at the end of the sleep; hareḥof Lord Kṛṣṇa; sākṣād-—direwct; darśanam—the sight; me—of me; bhavatv—masy be; alamgreatly; yaḥ—one who; madhye—in the middle; bodhayet—awakens; mām—me; vai—indeed; śayanam—sleeping; tv—indeed; apy—indeed; acetanam—unconscious; sa—he; mayāby me; dṛṣṭa-matraḥsimply by a glance; tu—indeed; bhāsmī-bhavatu—may be burned to ashes; tat-kṣaṇāt—from that moment; tathā—so; ca—and; ca—and; uktaḥ—said; suṣvāpa—slept; rājathe king; kṛtain Satya-yuga; yuge—in the yuga; purāin ancient times.

English translation of verses 6.2.17-18:

"When my sleep is over I will see Lord Kṛṣṇa directly. Anyone who wakens me before that, while I am still sleeping, I will burn to ashes with a glance." After speaking these words in ancient times, in the Satya-yuga, King Mucukunda went to sleep.

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