Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.12.5, 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 5 of Chapter 12 (Pancajana’s Previous Birth) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.12.5
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
स्रि-उतथ्य उवच चमो दमस् तपह् चौचम् क्सन्तिर् अर्जवम् एव च ज्ननम् विज्ननम् अस्तिक्यम् ब्रह्म-कर्म स्व-भव-जम् स्रि-उतथ्य
sri-utathya uvaca camo damas tapah caucam ksantir arjavam eva ca jnanam vijnanam astikyam brahma-karma sva-bhava-jam sri-utathya
uvaca—Sri Uatathya said; camah—peacefulness; damah—self-control; tapah—austerity; caucam—purity; ksantih—tolerance; arjavam—honesty; eva—certainly; ca—and; jnanam—wisdom; vijnanam—knowledge; astikyam—religiousness; brahma—of a brahmana; karma—duty; sva-bhava-jam—born of his own nature.
English translation of verse 5.12.5:
Sri Utathya said: Peacefulness, self-control, austerity, purity, tolerance, honesty, wisdom, knowledge, and religiousness-these are the qualities by which the brahmanas work *.