Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.21.32, 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 21 (The Story of Shri Narada) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.21.32
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
विचचार महीम् एतां
स्वेच्छया स महा-मुनिः
विकाले तस्य गानैश् च
विस्वरैस् ताल-वर्जितैः विगानैश् च वयं सर्वे अङ्ग-भङ्गा बभूविम
vicacāra mahīm etāṃ
svecchayā sa mahā-muniḥ
vikāle tasya gānaiś ca
visvarais tāla-varjitaiḥ vigānaiś ca vayaṃ sarve aṅga-bhaṅgā babhūvima
vicacāra—wandered; mahīm—the world; etām—this; svecchayā—by his own wish; sa—he; mahā-muniḥ—a great sage; vikāle—at the wrong time; tasya—of him; gānaiḥ—with songs; ca—and; visvaraiḥ—with the worng notes; tāla-varjitaiḥ—without proper rhythm; vigānaiḥ—with the wrong songs; ca—and; vayam—we; sarve—all; aṅga-bhaṅgā—deformed; babhūvima—became.
English translation of verse 5.21.32:
He is a great sage that wanders the words as he wishes. But his singing the wrong songs at the wrong times, with the wrong notes and without a proper rhythm, has broken the limbs of our bodies.