Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.10.20, 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 10 (Description of the Birth of Lord Balarama) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

वमन्तो रुधिरं वीरा
मूर्छिता निधनं गताह्
सभा-मण्डपम् आरक्तं
दृश्यते क्षतज-स्रवात्

vamanto rudhiraṃ vīrā
mūrchitā nidhanaṃ gatāh
sabhā-maṇḍapam āraktaṃ
dṛśyate kṣataja-sravāt

vamantah—vomiting; rudhiram—blood; vīrāh—the soldiers; mūrchitāh—fell unconscious; nidhanam—to death; gatāh—went; sabhā-maṇḍapam—the assembly hall; āraktam—red; dṛśyate—is seen; kṣatajablood from the wounds; sravāt—from the streams.

English translation of verse 1.10.20:

Many soldiers vomited blood, fell unconscious, and died. The assembly hall was seen to be red with streams of blood from their wounds.

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