Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.1.24, 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 2 of Chapter 1 (Description of the Entrance in Vrindavana) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

हरिं तताड शिरसा
शङ्खो विष्णुम् उरः-स्थले
तस्य मूर्ध-प्रहारेण
न चचाल परात् परः

hariṃ tatāḍa śirasā
śaṅkho viṣṇum uraḥ-sthale
tasya mūrdha-prahāreṇa
na cacāla parāt paraḥ

harim—Lord Hari; tatāḍa—struck; śirasā—with his head; śaṅkhaḥ—Śaṅkhāsura; viṣṇum—Lord Viṣṇu; uraḥ-sthale—on the chest; tasya—of Him; mūrdhaof the head; prahāreṇa—with the blow; na—not; cacāla—moved; parāt—than the greatest; paraḥ—greater.

English translation of verse 2.1.24:

With his head Śaṅkhāsura struck Lord Viṣṇu on the chest. Although struck by his head, Lord Hari, who is greater than the greatest, did not waver.

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