Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 1.6.10, 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 1 of Chapter 6 (Description of Kamsa’s Strength) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).
Verse 1.6.10
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
द्विपः कुवलयापीडः
सहस्र-द्विप-सत्त्व-भृत्
बभञ्ज शृङ्खल-बन्धं
दुद्राव शिबिरान् मदी
dvipaḥ kuvalayāpīḍaḥ
sahasra-dvipa-sattva-bhṛt
babhañja śṛṅkhala-bandhaṃ
dudrāva śibirān madī
dvipaḥ—elephant; kuvalayāpīḍaḥ—Kuvalayāpīḍa; sahasra—of a thousand; dvipa—elephants; sattva—the strength; bhṛt—having; babhañja—broke; śṛṅkhala-bandham—chains; dudrāva—ran; śibirāt—from the camp; madī—maddened.
English translation of verse 1.6.10:
Then the elephant Kuvalayāpīḍa, who was strong as thousands of other elephants, became angry, broke his chains, and ran from the royal camp.