Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.5.11, 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 2.5.11
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
शत-बाणैर् बकं दैत्यं
सञ्जघान धनुर्-धरः
तीक्ष्नैः पक्ष-गतैर् बाणैर्
न ममार बकस् ततः
śata-bāṇair bakaṃ daityaṃ
sañjaghāna dhanur-dharaḥ
tīkṣnaiḥ pakṣa-gatair bāṇair
na mamāra bakas tataḥ
śata—hundred; bāṇaiḥ—with arrows; bakam—the duck; daityam—demon; sañjaghāna—struck; dhanuḥ—a bow; dharaḥ—hilding; tīkṣnaiḥ—sharp; pakṣa-gataiḥ—gone to the wing; bāṇaiḥ—with arrows; na—not; mamāra—died; bakaḥ—the duck; tataḥ—then.
English translation of verse 2.5.11:
The archer Sūrya struck the demon duck with a hundred sharp arrows flying to his wing. The duck did not die.