Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.2.8, 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 6 of Chapter 2 (Residence in Shri Dvaraka) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).
Verse 6.2.8
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
स्व-ज्ञाति-बन्धु-रक्षार्थं
समुद्रे भीम-नादिनि
चकार द्वारका-दुर्गं
एक-रत्रेण माधवः
sva-jñāti-bandhu-rakṣārthaṃ
samudre bhīma-nādini
cakāra dvārakā-durgaṃ
eka-ratreṇa mādhavaḥ
sva-jñāti-bandhu-rakṣārtham—to protecte His friends and relatives; samudre—in the ocean; bhīma-nādini—with terrible roaring sounds; cakāra—did; dvārakā-durgam—the fort of Dvārakā; eka-ratreṇa—in one night; mādhavaḥ—Lord Kṛṣṇa.
English translation of verse 6.2.8:
Then, in one night Lord Kṛṣṇa built the Dvārakā fort in the middle of the ocean filled with fearful roaring sounds.