Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.2.8, 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 4 of Chapter 2 (The Story of the Gopis That Had Been Sages) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).
Verse 4.2.8
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
धन� विना कथ� चासा�
विवाहो हा भविष्यति
भोजन� यत्र सन्देह�
धनाश� तत्र कीदृशी
dhana� katha� cāsā�
vivāho hā bhaviṣyati
bhojane yatra sandeho
dhanāśā tatra kīdṛś�
Բ�welath; �without; 첹ٳ�how?; �and; 峾�of the girls; ��wedding; �indeed; ṣyپ�will be; ᲹԱ�in eatiung; yatra�where; Իḥ�doubt; dhana�of wealth; ś�hope; ٲٰ�there; īṛśī�like what?
English translation of verse 4.2.8:
How will my daughters marry if I have no wealth? If even the next meal is uncertain, where is the hope to gain wealth?