Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.1.20, 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 1 (The Story of the Personified Vedas) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).
Verse 4.1.20
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
तथा मध्ये दीर्घ-नदी
यमुना प्रतिबन्धिका
कथं तत्-तरणं नवं
ऋते देव भविष्यति
tathā madhye dīrgha-nadī
yamunā pratibandhikā
kathaṃ tat-taraṇaṃ navaṃ
ṛte deva bhaviṣyati
tathā—so; madhye—in the middle; dīrgha-nadī—the great river; yamunā—Yamunā; pratibandhikā—an obstaclke; katham—how?; tat-taraṇam—crossing it; navam—a boat; ṛte—without; deva—O Lord; bhaviṣyati—will be.
English translation of verse 4.1.20:
The great Yamunā river is a great obstacle. O Lord, how can we cross it without a boat?