Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 1.14.28, 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 1.14.28
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
रजो-ऽन्ध-कारो ऽभूत् तत्र
घोर-शब्दश् च गोकुले
रजस्वलानि चक्षूंषि
बभूवुर् घटिका-द्वयम्
rajo-'ndha-kāro 'bhūt tatra
ghora-śabdaś ca gokule
rajasvalāni cakṣūṃṣi
babhūvur ghaṭikā-dvayam
rajaḥ—of dust; andha-kāraḥ—a blinding darkness; abhūt—was; tatra—there; ghora—terrible; śabdaḥ—sound; ca—also; gokule—in Gokula; rajasvalāni—filled with dust; cakṣūṃṣi—eyes; babhūvuḥ—became; ghaṭikā-dvayam—for an hour.
English translation of verse 1.14.28:
In Gokula there was blinding darkness and a terrible roar. For an hour the dust stopped everyone's vision.