Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.24.87, 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 24 (The Killing of the Kola Demon) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.24.87
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
दत्त्वा दनान्य् अनेकानि
गो-मही-गज-वाहिनः
रत्नं वासो ब्राह्मणेभ्यो
भोजनं च यद्-इच्छया
dattvā danāny anekāni
go-mahī-gaja-vāhinaḥ
ratnaṃ vāso brāhmaṇebhyo
bhojanaṃ ca yad-icchayā
dattvā—giving; danāni—charities; anekāni—many; go-mahī-gaja-vāhinaḥ—cows, land, elephants, and chariots; ratnam—jewels; vāsaḥ—homes; brāhmaṇebhyaḥ—to the brāhmaṇa; bhojanam—food; ca—and; yad-icchayā—as they wished.
English translation of verse 5.24.87:
Then he will give to the brāhmaṇas many gifts. He will give them cows, land, elephants, chariots, jewels, houses, and food, as much as they desired.