Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.12.10, 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 2.12.10
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
तज्-जले पोथयाम् आस
सुपर्ण इव पन्नगम्
सर्पो मुख-शतं दीर्घं
प्रसार्य पुनर् आगतः
taj-jale pothayām āsa
suparṇa iva pannagam
sarpo mukha-śataṃ dīrghaṃ
prasārya punar āgataḥ
taj-jale—in the water; pothayām āsa—threw; suparṇa—Garuḍa; iva—like; pannagam—a snake; sarpaḥ—the snake; mukha-śatam—who had a hundred faces; dīrgham—long; prasārya—opening; punaḥ—again; āgataḥ—came.
English translation of verse 2.12.10:
Kṛṣṇa threw the snake far away, as Garuḍa would have thrown it. Expanding its hundred hoods, the snake returned.