Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.2.30, 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 2 (Description of Giriraja Govardhana’s Birth) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).
Verse 2.2.30
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-गोवर्धन उवाच
मुने कथं मां नयसि
लम्बितं योजनाष्टकम्
योजन-द्वयम् उच्चाङ्गं
पञ्च-योजन-विस्तृतम्
śrī-govardhana uvāca
mune kathaṃ māṃ nayasi
lambitaṃ yojanāṣṭakam
yojana-dvayam uccāṅgaṃ
pañca-yojana-vistṛtam
śrī-govardhanaḥ uvāca—Śrī Govardhana said; mune—O sage; katham—how?; mām—me; nayasi—you take; lambitam—extended; yojanā—yojanas; aṣṭakam—eight; yojana-dvayam—two yojanas; ucca—tall; aṅgam—body; pañca-yojana—five yojanas; vistṛtam—extended.
English translation of verse 2.2.30:
Śrī Govardhana said: O sage, how will you take me? I am eight yojanas long, five yojanas wide, and two yojanas tall.
Note: A yojana is eight miles.