Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.9.55, 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 9 (Brahma’s Prayers) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

ततश् च विहसन् कृष्णो
ऽभ्यवहृत्यार्भकैः सह
दर्शयाम् आस सर्वेभ्यस्
चर्माजगरम् एव च

tataś ca vihasan kṛṣṇo
'bhyavahṛtyārbhakaiḥ saha
darśayām āsa sarvebhyas
carmājagaram eva ca

tataḥthen; ca—and; vihasan—laughing; kṛṣṇaḥKṛṣṇa; abhyavahṛtya—taking lunch; arbhakaiḥ sahawityh the boys; darśayām āsa—showed; sarvebhyaḥ—to all; carmathe skin; ājagaram—of the snake; eva—indeed; ca—also.

English translation of verse 2.9.55:

Laughing, Kṛṣṇa took lunch with the boys. Then He showed them the skin of the dead snake Aghāsura.

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