Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.14.12, 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 14 (The Liberation of Shakatasura and Trinavarta) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

चूर्णे गते ऽथ शकटे पतिते च दैत्ये
त्यक्त्वा प्रभञ्जन-तनुं विमलो बभूव
नत्वा हरिं शत-हयेन रथेन युक्तो
गोलोक-धाम निज-लोकम् अलं जगाम

cūrṇe gate 'tha śakaṭe patite ca daitye
tyaktvā prabhañjana-tanuṃ vimalo babhūva
natvā hariṃ śata-hayena rathena yukto
goloka-dhāma nija-lokam alaṃ jagāma

cūrṇe—to pieces; gate—gone; athathen; śakaṭe—when the cart; patite—fell; ca—also; daitye—the demon; tyaktvāabandoning; prabha 24jana—of air; tanum—body; vimalaḥpure; babhūva—became; natvā—offering obeisances; harim—to Lord Hari; śataa hundred; hayena—horses; rathena—with a chariot; yuktaḥ—endowed; goloka-dhāmato the abode of Goloka; nija-lokam—His own abode; alam—greatly; jagāma—went.

English translation of verse 1.14.12:

When the cart broke into pieces the demon fell. Leaving his body of air, he attained a pure spiritual body and, after respectfully bowing down before Lord Hari, in a chariot pulled by a hundred horses went to the Lord's own abode of Goloka.

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