Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.3.32, 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:

अथ कृष्णा स्व-वेगेन
भित्त्वा सप्ताब्धि-मण्डलम्
साप्त-द्वीप-मही-पृष्ठे
लुठन्ति वेगवत् तरा

atha kṛṣṇā sva-vegena
bhittvā saptābdhi-maṇḍalam
sāpta-dvīpa-mahī-pṛṣṭhe
luṭhanti vegavat tarā

athathen; kṛṣṇāthe Yamunā; sva-vegena—quickly; bhittvā—breaking; saptābdhi-maṇḍalam—the seven oceans; sapta-dvīpa-mahī-pṛṣṭhe—on the seven continents; luṭhanti—moving; vegavattarā—quickly.

English translation of verse 2.3.32:

Quickly traversing the seven oceans, the dark Yamunā quickly flowed through the world of seven islands.

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