Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.7.36, 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:

ततश् चीक्षेप दैत्याय
गदां नमुचि-सूदनः
चचार युद्धे विदलन्न्
अरीन् मातलि-सारथिः

tataś cīkṣepa daityāya
gadāṃ namuci-sūdanaḥ
cacāra yuddhe vidalann
arīn mātali-sārathiḥ

tatasthen; cīkṣepa—threw; daityāya—at the demon; gadāṃ—the club;

English translation of verse 1.7.36:

namuci-sūdanaḥIndra, the killer of Namuci; cacāra—went; yuddhe—in the fight; vidalan—breaking; arīn—the enemies; mātali-sārathiḥ—Indra, whose charioteer is Mātali.

Indra, the killer of Namuci, threw the club back at the demon. Then Indra, cutting his enemies to pieces, and his chariot driven by Mātali, went into the battle.

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