Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.7.39, 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 7 (Description of the Conquest of All Directions) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

दोः-सहस्र-युतो वीरस्
चापांस् टाङ्कारयन् मुहुः
तदा तान् कालयाम् आस
बाणैर् बाणासुरो बली

doḥ-sahasra-yuto vīras
cāpāṃs ṭāṅkārayan muhuḥ
tadā tān kālayām āsa
bāṇair bāṇāsuro balī

doḥ—of arms; sahasra—thousands; yuto—endowed; vīras—warrior; cāpān—

English translation of verse 1.7.39:

bows; ṭāṅkārayan—twanging; muhuḥ—again and again; tadā—then; tān—them;

kālayām āsa—pushed back; bāṇair—with arrows; bāṇāsuro—Bāṇāsura; balī

powerful.

Making a great sound as he worked many bows with his thousand arms, the powerful warrior Bānaāsura drove them back with a host of arrows.

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