Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.6.10, 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 6 (The Liberation of Aghasura) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

श्री-नारद उवाच
शङ्खासुर-सुतो राजन्न्
अघो नाम महा-बलः
युवाति-सुन्दरः साक्षात्
कामदेव इवापरः

śrī-nārada uvāca
śaṅkhāsura-suto rājann
agho nāma mahā-balaḥ
yuvāti-sundaraḥ sākṣāt
kāmadeva ivāparaḥ

śrī-nārada uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; śaṅkhāsura-sutaḥthe son of Sankhasura; rājann—O king; aghaḥAgha; nāmanamed; mahāvery; balaḥ—powerful yuvā—young; ati-sundaraḥ—very handsome; sākṣātdirectly; kāmadevaKāmadeva; iva—like; aparaḥ—another.

English translation of verse 2.6.10:

Śrī Nārada said: O king, he was Śaṅkhacūḍa's son, and his name was Agha. He was young, strong, and very handsome. He was like another Kāmadeva.

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