Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.2.43, 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).

 

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

नोत्थितं भूरि-भाराढ्यं
कराभ्यां तं महा-मुनिः
स्व-तेजसा बलेनापि
गृहीतुम् उपचक्रमे

notthitaṃ bhūri-bhārāḍhyaṃ
karābhyāṃ taṃ mahā-muniḥ
sva-tejasā balenāpi
gṛhītum upacakrame

na—not; utthitam—stood up; bhūri-bhārāḍhyam—very heavy; karābhyām—with both hands; tam—him; mahā-muniḥthe great sage; sva-tejasā—by his potency; balenāpi—and strength; gṛhītum—to take; upacakrame—did.

English translation of verse 2.2.43:

When the very heavy mountain did not stand up, the great sage grasped it with his mystic strength.

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