Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.5.17, 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 2.5.17
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
क्षत-मूर्धा समुत्थाय
विधुन्वन् स्व-तनुं पुनः
जगर्ज घनवद् वीरो
बको दैत्यो महा-खलः
kṣata-mūrdhā samutthāya
vidhunvan sva-tanuṃ punaḥ
jagarja ghanavad vīro
bako daityo mahā-khalaḥ
kṣata—wounded; mūrdhā—head; samutthāya—rose; vidhunvan—shaking; sva-tanum—his body; punaḥ—again; jagarja—roared; ghanavat—like a cloud; vīraḥ—heroic; bakaḥ—duck; daityaḥ—demon; mahā-khalaḥ—very wicked.
English translation of verse 2.5.17:
His head broken, the very wicked and powerful demon duck rose, shook his body, and roared like a thundering cloud.