Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.7.51, 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:

अथ चैरावतो नागो
दुद्रावाशु रणाङ्गनात्
निपातयन् महा-वीरान्
देवधानीं पुरीं गतः

atha cairāvato nāgo
dudrāvāśu raṇāṅganāt
nipātayan mahā-vīrān
devadhānīṃ purīṃ gataḥ

athathen; ca—also; airāvato—Airāvata; nāgo—elephant; dudrāva—fled;

English translation of verse 1.7.51:

āśu—quickly; raṇāṅganāt—from the battleground; nipātayan—knocking over;

mahā-vīrān—great heroes; devadhānīṃ purīṃ—to the capitol of the demigods;

gataḥ—went.

Knocking over many great heroes, the elephant Airāvata fled the battleground and went to the capitol of the demigods.

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