Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.8.17, 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:

नग्नजित्-कन्यकां सत्यां
दमित्वा सप्त गो-वृषान्
पश्यतां सर्व-लोकानां
उपयेमे हरिः स्वयम्

nagnajit-kanyakāṃ satyāṃ
damitvā sapta go-vṛṣān
paśyatāṃ sarva-lokānāṃ
upayeme hariḥ svayam

nagnajit-kanyakām—the daughter of King Nagnajit; satyām—Stayā; damitvā—subduing; saptaseven; go-vṛṣān—bulls; paśyatām—looking on; sarva-lokānām—as all the people; upayeme—married; hariḥ—Lord Kṛṣṇa; svayam—personally.

English translation of verse 6.8.17:

Then, after subduing seven bulls as all the people watched, Lord Kṛṣṇa married Satyā, the daughter of KIng Nagnajit.

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