Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.8.18, 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).
Verse 6.8.18
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
कैकेय-राज-तनुजां
भद्रां तु भगवान् हरिः
कालिन्दीम् इव तां शश्वद्
उपयेमे विधानतः
kaikeya-rāja-tanujāṃ
bhadrāṃ tu bhagavān hariḥ
kālindīm iva tāṃ śaśvad
upayeme vidhānataḥ
kaikeya-rāja-tanujām—the daughter of the kin g of Kaikeya; bhadrām—Bhadrā; tu—indeed; bhagavān—Lord; hariḥ—Kṛṣṇa; kālindīm—Kālindī; iva—like; tām—her; śaśvat—eternally; upayeme—married; vidhānataḥ—according to the proper rituals.
English translation of verse 6.8.18:
Then, as He had married Kālindī, Lord Kṛṣṇa married Bhadrā, the princess of Kaikeya, in a proper ritual.