Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.12.1, 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 12 (Subduing Kaliya and Drinking the Forest Fire) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).
Verse 2.12.1
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-नारद उवाच
बलं विनाथ गोपालैस्
चारयन् गा हरिः स्वयम्
कालिन्दी-कूलम् आगत्य
ययौ वारि-विषावृतम्
śrī-nārada uvāca
balaṃ vinātha gopālais
cārayan gā hariḥ svayam
kālindī-kūlam āgatya
yayau vāri-viṣāvṛtam
śrī-nārada uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; balam—Balarāma; vinā—without; atha—then; gopālaiḥ—with the gopas; cārayan—herding; gāḥ—the cows; hariḥ—Kṛṣṇa; svayam—personally; kālindī-kūlam—to the shore of the Yamunā; āgatya—coming; yayau—went; vāri—water; viṣa—with poison; āvṛtam—filled.
English translation of verse 2.12.1:
Śrī Nārada said: One day, as in Balarāma's absence He was herding the cows with the gopas as His company, Kṛṣṇa came to the shore of the Yamunā, which at that time was filled with poisoned water.