Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.3.9, 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 3 (Description of the Yamuna’s Arrival) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

ततः पपात वेगेन
सुमेरु-गिरि-मूर्धनि
गिरि-कूटान् अतिक्रम्य
भित्त्वा गण्ड-शिला-तटान्

tataḥ papāta vegena
sumeru-giri-mūrdhani
giri-kūṭān atikramya
bhittvā gaṇḍa-śilā-taṭān

tataḥthen; papāta—fell; vegena—with great force; sumeru-giri-mūrdhāni—on top of Mount Sumeru; giri-kūṭān—the mountain peaks; atikramya—passing; bhittvā—breaking; gaṇḍa-śilā-taṭān—the stone face of the mountain.

English translation of verse 2.3.9:

Then with great force she fell on Mount Sumeru. Flowing from its peaks, she broke the stones on its slope.

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