Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.10.5, 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 10 (In the Description of the Gomati River, the Glories of Cakra-tirtha) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).
Verse 6.10.5
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
येन नीतस् तु मे शण्खः
स शण्खो भवतु ध्रुवम्
तदैव शण्ख-रूपो ऽभूत्
कक्शिवान् छाप-पीडितः
yena nītas tu me śaṇkhaḥ
sa śaṇkho bhavatu dhruvam
tadaiva śaṇkha-rūpo 'bhūt
kakśivān chāpa-pīḍitaḥ
yena—by whom; nītaḥ—taken; tu—indeed; me—my; śaṇkhaḥ—conchshell; sa—he; śaṇkhaḥ—a conch; bhavatu—may become; dhruvam—indeed; tadā—then; eva—indeed; śaṇkha-rūpaḥ—the form of a conch; abhūt—became; kakśivān— Kaksivan; śāpa-pīḍitaḥ—troubled by the curse.
English translation of verse 6.10.5:
"Whoever has stolen my conchshell will become a conch." Cursed in this way, Kakśivān at once became a conch.