Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 1.11.46, 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 11 (Description of Shri Krishnacandra’s Birth) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).
Verse 1.11.46
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
घनेषु व्योम्नि वर्षत्सु
सहस्र-वदनः स्वराट्
निवारयन् दीर्घ-फाणैर्
आसारं शौरिम् अन्वगात्
ghaneṣu vyomni varṣatsu
sahasra-vadanaḥ svarāṭ
nivārayan dīrgha-phāṇair
āsāraṃ śaurim anvagāt
ghaneṣu—as the clouds; vyomni—in the sky; varṣatsu—rained; sahasra-vadanaḥ—thousand-faced Lord Ananta; svarāṭ—independent; nivārayan—warding off; dīrgha—long; phāṇaiḥ—with hoods; āsāram—torrents of rain; śaurim—Vasudeva; anvagāt—followed.
English translation of verse 1.11.46:
As the clouds in the sky rained, thousant—headed Ananta Śeṣa, His great hoods giving protection from the torrents of rain, followed Vasudeva.