Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.12.2, 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 2.12.2
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
कालियेन फणीन्द्रेण
जलं यत्र विदूषितम्
पीत्वा निपेतुर् व्यसवो
गावो गोपा जलान्तिके
kāliyena phaṇīndreṇa
jalaṃ yatra vidūṣitam
pītvā nipetur vyasavo
gāvo gopā jalāntike
kāliyena—by Kaliya; phaṇīndreṇa—the king of snakes; jalam—the water; yatra—where; vidūṣitam—polluted; pītvā—having drunk; nipetuḥ—fell; vyasavaḥ—dead; gāvaḥ—the cows; gopā—gopas; jala—the water; antike—near.
English translation of verse 2.12.2:
When they drank the water poisoned by the snake-king Kāliya, the cows and gopas at once fell dead at the water's edge.