Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.7.46, 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:

दृढेन मुष्टिना कंसस्
तं तटाद महा-गजम्
द्वितीय-मुष्टिना शक्रं
स जघान रणाङ्गने

dṛḍhena muṣṭinā kaṃsas
taṃ taṭāda mahā-gajam
dvitīya-muṣṭinā śakraṃ
sa jaghāna raṇāṅgane

dṛḍhena—with a hard; muṣṭinā—fist; kaṃsasKaṃsa; tam—it; taṭāda—struck;

English translation of verse 1.7.46:

mahā—great; gajam—elephant; dvitīya—with a second; muṣṭinā—fist; śakraṃ—

Indra; sas—he; jaghāna—struck; raṇāṅgane—in the battleground.

With a hard punch Kaṃsa struck the great elephant and with a second punch he struck Indra in that battleground.

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