Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.18.10, 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 18 (Uddhava Hears the Gopis’ Words and Returns to Mathura) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.18.10
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-तमो-वृत्तय ऊचुः
वृन्दा येन छलं प्राप्ता
छलिना बलिना पुरा
छलमय्या बलिन्याद्या
कुब्जया छलितो ह्य् अयम्
śrī-tamo-vṛttaya ūcuḥ
vṛndā yena chalaṃ prāptā
chalinā balinā purā
chalamayyā balinyādyā
kubjayā chalito hy ayam
śrī-tamo-vṛttaya ūcuḥ—the tamo-vṛtti gopīs said; vṛndā—Vrnda; yena—by whom; chalam—trick; prāptā—attained; chalinā—by a trick; balinā—by Bali; purā—before; chalamayyā—treacerous; balinyādyā—headed by Balini; kubjayā—by Kubjā; chalitaḥ—cheated; hi—indeed; ayam—He.
English translation of verse 5.18.10:
The tamo-vṛtti gopīs said: Kṛṣṇa cheated many others in the past. He cheated Bali Mahārāja and He also cheated Kubjā.