Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.5.2, 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 5 (The Liberation of Bakasura) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

श्वेत-पर्वत-सङ्काशो
बृहत्-पादो घन-ध्वनिः
पलायितेषु बालेषु
वज्र-तुण्डो ऽग्रसद् धरिम्

śveta-parvata-saṅkāśo
bṛhat-pādo ghana-dhvaniḥ
palāyiteṣu bāleṣu
vajra-tuṇḍo 'grasad dharim

śveta-parvata-saṅkāśaḥlike a great white mountain; bṛhat-pādaḥ—with gigantic feet; ghana-dhvaniḥ—the rumbling of clouds; palāyiteṣu—fled; bāleṣu—the boys; vajrathunderbolt; tuṇḍaḥ—beak; agrasat—swallowed; harim—Kṛṣṇa.

English translation of verse 2.5.2:

Its form a white mountain, its feet gigantic, its quacking the rumbling of clouds, and its beak a thunderbolt, the demon swallowed Lord Kṛṣṇa as the boys fled.

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