Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 1.14.20, 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).
Verse 1.14.20
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
सर्प-कञ्चुकवद्-देहो
ऽपतत् कर्म-विपाकतः
सद्यस् तच्-चरणोपन्ते
पतित्वा प्राह दैत्य-राट्
sarpa-kañcukavad-deho
'patat karma-vipākataḥ
sadyas tac-caraṇopante
patitvā prāha daitya-rāṭ
sarpa—a snake; kañcukavat—like the skin; dehaḥ—body; apatat—fell; karma—of deeds; vipākataḥ—by the fruition; sadyaḥ—at once; tat—of him; caraṇa-upante—at the feet; patitvā—falling; prāha—said; daitya-rāṭ—the king of demons.
English translation of verse 1.14.20:
From this deed his body at once fell away as a snake's old skin also falls away.
The king of demons then fell at the brāhmaṇa's feet and spoke.