Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.14.19, 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:

तं दृष्ट्वा स्थूल-देहाढ्यं
उत्कचाख्यं महा-बालम्
शशाप रोष-युग् विप्रो
विदेहो भव दुर्मते

taṃ dṛṣṭvā sthūla-dehāḍhyaṃ
utkacākhyaṃ mahā-bālam
śaśāpa roṣa-yug vipro
videho bhava durmate

tam—him; dṛṣṭvāseeing; sthūlabig; dehabody; āḍhyam—opulent; utkaca-ākhyam—named Utkaca; mahā-bālam—very powerful; śaśāpa—cursed; roṣa-yuk—angry; vipraḥ—brāhmaṇa; videhaḥ—without a body; bhavabecome; durmate—O evil-hearted one.

English translation of verse 1.14.19:

Seeing the powerful giant named Utkaca, the brāhmaṇa became angry and cursed him, "O evil-hearted one, become bodyless!"

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