Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.20.12, 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 20 (The Killing of Pralamba) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).

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

विचिर्न-मुस्तको दैत्यो यथा वज्र-हतो गिरिः

vicirna-mustako daityo yathā vajra-hato giriḥ

papāta bhumau sahasā cālayan vasudhā-talam vicirna—broken; mustakaḥ—head; daityaḥthe demon; yathā—as; vajra-hataḥhit by a thunderbolt; giriḥ—a mountain; papāta—fell; bhumau—to the ground; sahasā—at once; cālayan—shaking; vasudhā-talam—the earth.

English translation of verse 4.20.12:

Falling the ground as a mountain hit by Indra's thunderbolt falls, the demon, his head broken, made the earth tremble.

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