Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.8.14, 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:

तपश् चरन्ती कालिन्दी
श्री-कृष्णं वरम् इच्छति
दर्शिता पाण्डवेनापि
तां गृहीत्वा जगाम ह

tapaś carantī kālindī
śrī-kṛṣṇaṃ varam icchati
darśitā pāṇḍavenāpi
tāṃ gṛhītvā jagāma ha

tapaḥausterities; carantī—performing; kālindīKālindī; śrī-kṛṣṇam—to Śrī Kṛṣṇa; varamas her husband; icchatidesring; darśitā—showed; pāṇḍavena—by Arjuna; api—even; tām—her; gṛhītvātaking; jagāma—went; ha—indeed.

English translation of verse 6.8.14:

There Arjuna found Kālindī, who had been performing austerities to attain Lord Kṛṣṇa as her husband. Arjuna showed her to Lord Kṛṣṇa, and He accepted her and took her with Him.

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