Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.6.12, 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).
Verse 2.6.12
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
तं शशाप महा-दुष्टं
त्वं सर्पो भव दुर्मते
कुरूप वक्र-ग जातिः
सर्पाणां भूमि-मण्डले
taṃ śaśāpa mahā-duṣṭaṃ
tvaṃ sarpo bhava durmate
kurūpa vakra-ga jātiḥ
sarpāṇāṃ bhūmi-maṇḍale
tam—him; śaśāpa—cursed; mahā-duṣṭam—very wicked; tvam—you; sarpaḥ—a snake; bhava—become; durmate—O wicked-hearted one; kurūpa—ugly; vakra-ga—difigured; jātiḥ—birth; sarpāṇām—of snakes; bhūmi-maṇḍale—on the circle of the earth.
English translation of verse 2.6.12:
Then the sage cursed the demon Agha: "O wicked-hearted one, you will become a snake. You will be the ugliest snake in the circle of the earth."