Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.19.16, 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 19 (Breaking of the Two Arjuna Trees) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

चकर्ष सहसा कृष्णस्
तिर्यग्-गतम् उलूखलम्
कर्षणेन स-मूलौ द्वौ
पेततुर् भूमि-मण्डले

cakarṣa sahasā kṛṣṇas
tiryag-gatam ulūkhalam
karṣaṇena sa-mūlau dvau
petatur bhūmi-maṇḍale

cakarṣa—pulled; sahasāat once; kṛṣṇaḥKṛṣṇa; tiryak-gatam—sideways; ulūkhalam—grinding mortar; karṣaṇena—by pulling; sa-mūlau—with their roots; dvau—both; petatuḥ—fell; bhūmi-maṇḍale—to the ground.

English translation of verse 1.19.16:

Kṛṣṇa tugged at the sideways grinding mortar. By His tug the two trees were uprooted and fell to the ground.

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