Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.11.57, 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).

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

कंस-हस्तात् समुत्पत्य
त्वरं सा चाम्बरे गता
शत-पत्रे रथे दिव्ये
सहस्र-हय-सेविते

kaṃsa-hastāt samutpatya
tvaraṃ sā cāmbare gatā
śata-patre rathe divye
sahasra-haya-sevite

kaṃsaof Kaṃsa; hastāt—from the hand; samutpatya—rising; tvaram—quickly; sā—she; ca—also; ambare—to the sky; gatā—went; śata-patre—a hundred-petal lotus; rathe—on a chariot; divye—splendid; sahasrathousand; hayahorses; sevite—served.

English translation of verse 1.11.57:

Form Kaṃsa's hand the girl flew into the sky and entered a splendid hundred-petal-lotus chariot pulled by a thousand horses.

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