Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.3.33, 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:

गत्वा स्वर्णमयीं भूमिं
लोकालोकाचलं गता
तत्-सानु-गण्ड-शैलानां
तटं भित्त्वा कालिन्दजा

gatvā svarṇamayīṃ bhūmiṃ
lokālokācalaṃ gatā
tat-sānu-gaṇḍa-śailānāṃ
taṭaṃ bhittvā kālindajā

gatvā—coming; svarṇamayīm—golden; bhūmim—to the land; lokalokācalam—Mount Lokaloka; gatā—gone; tat-sānuon its peaks; gaṇḍa-śailānām—of rocks; taṭam—slope; bhittvā—breaking; kālindajā—the Yamunā.

English translation of verse 2.3.33:

Then the Yamunā flowed to the golden land and then Mount Lokāloka where, flowing from its peaks, she broke the rocks on its slopes.

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