Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.12.5, 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 12 (Subduing Kaliya and Drinking the Forest Fire) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).
Verse 2.12.5
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
उच्चचाल जलं दुष्टं
कृष्ण-सङ्घात-घूर्णितम्
तत्-सर्प-मन्दिरे नद्यां
भृङ्गी-भूतं बभूव ह
uccacāla jalaṃ duṣṭaṃ
kṛṣṇa-saṅghāta-ghūrṇitam
tat-sarpa-mandire nadyāṃ
bhṛṅgī-bhūtaṃ babhūva ha
uccacāla—rose; jalam—the water; duṣṭam—poisoned; kṛṣṇa-saṅghāta-ghūrṇitam—by the thrashing of Kṛṣṇa; tat-sarpa-mandire—in the abode of that snake; nadyām—in the river; bhṛṅgī-bhūtam—become a wasp; babhūva—became; ha—indeed.
English translation of verse 2.12.5:
As Kṛṣṇa thrashed about, the poisoned water rose in great waves. Kṛṣṇa was like a wasp that had entered the snake's river-palace.