Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.8.12, 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 8 (The Marriages of All the Queens) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).

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

पाण्डवानां सहायार्थं
इन्द्रप्रस्थं गतो हरिः
तत्रैव वर्षिकान् मासान्
न्यवात्सीद् बन्धु-वत्सलः

pāṇḍavānāṃ sahāyārthaṃ
indraprasthaṃ gato hariḥ
tatraiva varṣikān māsān
nyavātsīd bandhu-vatsalaḥ

pāṇḍavānām—pf the Pandavas; sahāyārtham—forhelp; indraprastham—to hastinapura; gataḥ—went; hariḥ—Lord Kṛṣṇa; tatra—there; eva—indeed; varṣikān—of the monsoon; māsān—the months; nyavātsīt—resided; bandhu-vatsalaḥ—who loves His relatives.

English translation of verse 6.8.12:

Then Lord Kṛṣṇa, who dearly loves His relatives, went to Hastināpura and stayed there for the months of the monsoon to help the Pāṇḍavas.

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