Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.15.3, 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 15 (The Glories of Nriga-kupa and Gopi-bhumi) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).

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

भौमासुर-सखो दुष्टो
द्विविडो नाम वानरः
मारितो यत्र रामेण
मुष्टिना वज्र-पातिना

bhaumāsura-sakho duṣṭo
dviviḍo nāma vānaraḥ
mārito yatra rāmeṇa
muṣṭinā vajra-pātinā

bhaumāsura-sakhaḥa freind of Bhaumasura; duṣṭaḥa demon; dviviḍaḥ—Dvivida; nāmanamed; vānaraḥa gorilla; māritaḥ—killed; yatrawhere; rāmeṇa—by Balarāma; muṣṭinā—with a fist; vajra-pātinā—a thunderbolt.

English translation of verse 6.15.3:

With His thunderbolt fist, Lord Balarāma killed Bhaumāsura's friend, the demon gorilla Dviviḍa, in this place.

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