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).
Verse 4.20.12
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; daityaḥ—the demon; yathā—as; vajra-hataḥ—hit 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.