Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.6.16, 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:

वत्साद् बक-मुखान् मुक्तं
ततो मुक्तं ह्य् अघासुरात्
श्रुत्वा कति-दिनैः कृष्णं
यशोदाभुद् भयातुरा

vatsād baka-mukhān muktaṃ
tato muktaṃ hy aghāsurāt
śrutvā kati-dinaiḥ kṛṣṇaṃ
yaśodābhud bhayāturā

vatsāt—from vatsāsura; baka-mukhān—from Baka's mouth; muktam—freed; tataḥthen; muktam—freed; hi—indeed; aghāsurāt—from Aghāsura; śrutvāhearing; kati-dinaiḥ—for some days; kṛṣṇam—Kṛṣṇa; yaśodāYaśodā; abhut—— become; bhayawith fear; āturāovercome.

English translation of verse 2.6.16:

Hearing how in only a few days Kṛṣṇa was rescued from Vatsāsura, Bakāsura's beak, and now from Aghāsura, Yaśodā became filled with fears.

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