Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.14.35, 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:

तज्-ज्योतिः श्री-घन—श्यामे लीनं सौदामिनी यथा दैत्यो ऽम्बरान् निपातितः

taj-jyotiḥ śrī-ghana—śyāme līnaṃ saudāminī yathā daityo 'mbarān nipātitaḥ

śilāyāṃ śiśunā saha tat—of Him; jyotiḥthe effulgence; śrī-ghanaśyāme—dark as a monsoon cloud; līnam—entered; saudāminīlighting; yathā—as; daityaḥthe demon; ambarāt—from the sky; nipātitaḥ—fell; śilāyām—on a boulder; śiśunā—the infant; saha—with.

English translation of verse 1.14.35:

Then the demon merged in Lord Kṛṣṇa's effulgence as lightning merges in a dark monsoon cloud. Then the demon and the infant fell from the sky onto a boulder.

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