Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.5.12, 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 5 (The Kidnapping of Shri Rukmini) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).
Verse 6.5.12
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
अहो चास्मै न दत्तेयं
इति खिन्न-मनाः परम्
आनन्देन वने स्थाप्य
नत्वा स्व-गृहम् आययौ
aho cāsmai na datteyaṃ
iti khinna-manāḥ param
ānandena vane sthāpya
natvā sva-gṛham āyayau
ahaḥ—Oh; ca—and; asmai—to Him; na—not; dattā—given; iyam—her; iti—thus; khinna-manāḥ—unhappy at heart; param—greatly; ānandena—with bliss; vane—in the forest; sthāpya—placing; natvā—bowing; sva-gṛham—to his home; āyayau—returned.
English translation of verse 6.5.12:
Unhappy at heart, he thought, "Alas, I did not offer her to Him!" Cheerfully giving Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma a place to stay in the garden, He bowed down before Them and then returned to his home.