Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.6.39, 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).

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

आकृष्य कर्ण-पर्यन्तं
शत-वारं ततान ह
प्रत्यञ्चास्फोटनेनैव
टङ्कारो ऽभूत् तडित्-स्वनः

ākṛṣya karṇa-paryantaṃ
śata-vāraṃ tatāna ha
pratyañcāsphoṭanenaiva
ṭaṅkāro 'bhūt taḍit-svanaḥ

ākṛṣyadrawing; karṇa-paryantam—to his ear; śata-vārama hundred times; tatāna—stretched; ha—indeed; pratyañca āsphoṭanena—by releasing the bowstring; eva—indeed; ṭaṅkāraḥ—twanging sound; abhūt—was; taḍit-svanaḥ—thunder.

English translation of verse 1.6.39:

A hundred times he drew the bowstring back to his ear and released it with a thunderous sound.

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