Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.5.20, 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:

अग्रे पलायितान् देवान्
अन्वधावद् बको ऽम्बरे
पुनस् तत्र गतो दैत्यो
नादयन् मण्डलं दिशम्

agre palāyitān devān
anvadhāvad bako 'mbare
punas tatra gato daityo
nādayan maṇḍalaṃ diśam

agre—ahead; palāyitān—fleeing; devān—demigods; anvadhāvat—followed; bakaḥ—the duck; ambare—in the sky; punaḥ—again; tatra—there; gataḥ—went; daityaḥ—the demon; nādayan—filling with sound; maṇḍalam—the circle; diśam—of the directions.

English translation of verse 2.5.20:

The demigods flew into the sky and the demon, filling the circle of the directions with sound, flew after them.

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