Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.18.11, 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 1 of Chapter 18 (Vision of the Universal Form) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

श्री-कृष्णस्येच्छया सर्वं
गोलोकाद् आगता भुवि
तेषां प्रभावं वक्तुं हि
न समर्थश् चतुर्-मुखः

śrī-kṛṣṇasyecchayā sarvaṃ
golokād āgatā bhuvi
teṣāṃ prabhāvaṃ vaktuṃ hi
na samarthaś catur-mukhaḥ

śrī-kṛṣṇasya—of Śrī Kṛṣṇa; icchayā—by the desire; sarvam—all; golokāt—from Goloka; āgatāḥ—came; bhuvi—to the earth; teṣām—of them; prabhāvam—the glory; vaktum—to say; hi—indeed; na—not; samarthaḥ—Brahmā; catur-mukhaḥwho has four mouths.

English translation of verse 1.18.11:

By Lord Kṛṣṇa's wish they all went from Goloka to this earth. Even the demigod Brahmā is not able to describe their glories.

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