Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 1.11.70, 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 1.11.70
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
गो-विप्र-साधु-श्रुतयो
देवा धर्मादयः परे
विष्णोश् च तनवो ह्य् एषां
नाशे दैत्य-बलं स्मृतम्
go-vipra-sādhu-śrutayo
devā dharmādayaḥ pare
viṣṇoś ca tanavo hy eṣāṃ
nāśe daitya-balaṃ smṛtam
gaḥ—the cows; vipra—brāhmaṇas; sādhu—devotees; śrutayaḥ—and Vedas; devāḥ—the demigods; dharma—the principles of religion; ādayaḥ—beginning with; pare—others; viṣṇoś—of Lord Viṣṇu; ca—also; tanavaḥ—bodies; hi—indeed; eṣām—of them; nāśe—in the destruction; daitya—of the demons; balam—the power; smṛtam—remembered.
English translation of verse 1.11.70:
The cows, brāhmaṇas, devotees, Vedas, demigods, and others headed by the principles of religion, are the limbs of Lord Viṣṇu. When they are destroyed, the power of the demons will be remembered.