Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.11.5, 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 11 (The Liberation of Dhenukasura) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).
Verse 2.11.5
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
फलानां पततां शब्दं
श्रुत्वा क्रोधावृतः खरः
मध्याह्ने स्वाप-कृद् दुष्टो
भीमः कंस-सखो बलि
phalānāṃ patatāṃ śabdaṃ
śrutvā krodhāvṛtaḥ kharaḥ
madhyāhne svāpa-kṛd duṣṭo
bhīmaḥ kaṃsa-sakho bali
phalānām—of the fruits3; patatām—falling; śabdam—the sound; śrutvā—heariung; krodha—with anger; āvṛtaḥ—filled; kharaḥ—the ass; madhyāhne—in the middle of the day; svāpa-kṛt—napping; duṣṭaḥ—the demon; bhīmaḥ—powerful; kaṃsa-sakhaḥ—a friend of Kaṃsa; balī—strong.
English translation of verse 2.11.5:
When he heard the sound of the falling fruits, the ass-demon Dhenuka, who was very powerful, who was a friend of Kaṃsa, and who had been taking his midday nap, became filled with anger.