Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.13.16, 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 13 (The Glories of Prabhasa-tirtha, the Sarasvati River, Bodha-pippala, and the Place Where the Gomati River Meets the Ocean) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).

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

वेश्या-प्रसण्ग-निरतो
वीत-गोश्ठी-विशारदः
द्यूत-क्रीडणकासक्तो
लोभ-मोह-मदान्वितः

veśyā-prasaṇga-nirato
vīta-gośṭhī-viśāradaḥ
dyūta-krīḍaṇakāsakto
lobha-moha-madānvitaḥ

veśyā-prasaṇga-nirataḥattached to prostitutes; vīta-gośṭhī-viśāradaḥexpert at speaking words of love; dyūta-krīḍaṇakāsaktaḥ—attached to gambling; lobha greed; mohabewilderment; madapassion; anvitaḥ—with.

English translation of verse 6.13.16:

He greedy, passionate, bewildered, fond of visiting prostitutes, expert at speaking amorous flattery, and addicted to gambling.

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