Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.7.38, 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:

कंसं मरुद्-गणाः सर्वे
गृढ्र-पक्षैः स्फुरत्-प्रभैः
बाणौघैश् छादयाम् आसुः
प्रवृत्-सूर्यम् इवाम्बुदः

kaṃsaṃ marud-gaṇāḥ sarve
gṛḍhra-pakṣaiḥ sphurat-prabhaiḥ
bāṇaughaiś chādayām āsuḥ
pravṛt-sūryam ivāmbudaḥ

kaṃsaṃKaṃsa; marud-gaṇāḥ—the Maruts; sarve—all; gṛḍhra-pakṣaiḥ—with the eagles' feathers; sphurat-prabhaiḥ—splendid; bāṇa—of arrows; aughais—a flood; chādayām āsuḥ—covered; pravṛt—monsoon; sūryam—sun; iva—like;

English translation of verse 1.7.38:

ambudaḥ—cloud.

Then all the Maruts coverd Kaṃsa with a great and splendid flood of gṛdhra-feathered arrows like a monsoon cloud covering the sun.

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