Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.6.11, 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 2 of Chapter 6 (The Liberation of Aghasura) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:

अष्टवक्रं मुनिं यान्तं
विरूपं मलयाचले
दृष्ट्वा जहास तम् अघः
कु-रूपो ऽयम् इति ब्रुवन्

aṣṭavakraṃ muniṃ yāntaṃ
virūpaṃ malayācale
dṛṣṭvā jahāsa tam aghaḥ
ku-rūpo 'yam iti bruvan

aṣṭavakram munim—Aṣṭavakra Muni; yāntam—going; virūpam—disfigured; malayācale—in the Malaya Mountains; dṛṣṭvāseeing; jahāsa—laughed; tam—at him; aghaḥAgha; ku-rūpaḥ—ungly; ayamthis; iti—thus; bruvan—saying.

English translation of verse 2.6.11:

When he saw the disfigured sage Aṣṭavakra Muni walking by the Malaya Hills, Agha laughed and said, "Who is this ugly person?"

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