Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.5.8, 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).
Verse 2.5.8
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
वायव्यास्त्रेण वायुस् तं
सञ्जघान बाकं ततः
उच्चचाल बाकस् तेन
पुनस् तत्र स्थितो ऽभवत्
vāyavyāstreṇa vāyus taṃ
sañjaghāna bākaṃ tataḥ
uccacāla bākas tena
punas tatra sthito 'bhavat
vāyavya-astreṇa—with his wind-weapon; vāyuḥ—Vāyu; tam—him; sañjaghāna—struck; bākam—the duck; tataḥ—then; uccacāla—flew away; bākaḥ—the duck; tena—by that; punaḥ—again; tatra—there; sthitaḥ—stood; abhavat—became.
English translation of verse 2.5.8:
With his wind-weapon Vāyu struck the duck demon. The duck flew away and then returned.