Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.8.16, 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 8 (Description of Seeing Lord Krishna) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

ततः क्रोधेन महता
पर्वताद् अवतीर्य च
तादनार्थे स्व-पुत्राणां
आजग्मुः कच्छतो द्रुतम्

tataḥ krodhena mahatā
parvatād avatīrya ca
tādanārthe sva-putrāṇāṃ
ājagmuḥ kacchato drutam

tataḥthen; krodhena—with anger; mahatāgreat; parvatāt—from the hill; avatīryadescending; ca—and; tādana-arthe—to punish; sva-putrāṇām—own sons; ājagmuḥ—came; kacchataḥ—vicinity; drutam—quickly.

English translation of verse 2.8.16:

As the men came down from the hill to hit the cows, they suddenly came upon their own sons.

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