Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.7.40, 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 7 (The Marriage of Shri Rukmini) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).
Verse 6.7.40
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
रुक्मी तु ताभ्याम् उत्सृष्टो
वितथात्म-मनोरथः
स्मरन् विरूप-कारणं
तपसे स मनो दधात्
rukmī tu tābhyām utsṛṣṭo
vitathātma-manorathaḥ
smaran virūpa-kāraṇaṃ
tapase sa mano dadhāt
rukmī—Rukmi; tu—indeed; tābhyām—by Them; utsṛṣṭaḥ—placed; vitatha—frustrated; ātma-manorathaḥ—desires; smaran—remembering; virūpa-kāraṇam—the cause of his becoming ugly; tapase—for austerities; sa—he; manaḥ—his mind; dadhāt—fixed.
English translation of verse 6.7.40:
In this way Rukmī's desires were thwarted by Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma.
Remembering how he had been made so ugly, Rukmī fixed his mind on performing austerities.