Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.7.22, 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 7 (Description of the Conquest of All Directions) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

गजांस् तुरङ्गान् स-रथान्
वीरान् भूमौ निपात्य च
जगर्ज घनवद् वीरो
गदा-युद्धे मृधाङ्गने

gajāṃs turaṅgān sa-rathān
vīrān bhūmau nipātya ca
jagarja ghanavad vīro
gadā-yuddhe mṛdhāṅgane

gajān—the elephants; turaṅgān—horses; sa-rathān—with chariots; vīrān—

English translation of verse 1.7.22:

warriors; bhūmau—to the ground; nipātya—knocking; ca—also; jagarja—roared;

ghanavad—like thunder; vīro—hero; gadā—club; yuddhe—in the fight; mṛdhā-aṅgane—in the battlefield.

When he knocked down the elephants, horses, chariots and warriors in the club battlefield, powerful Kaṃsa roared like thunder.

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