Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.12.11, 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 2.12.11
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
पुच्छे गृहीत्वा तं कृष्णस्
चकर्षाशु धनु-शतम्
कृष्ण-हस्ताद् विनिष्क्रम्य
सर्पस् तं व्यदशत् पुनः
pucche gṛhītvā taṃ kṛṣṇas
cakarṣāśu dhanu-śatam
kṛṣṇa-hastād viniṣkramya
sarpas taṃ vyadaśat punaḥ
pucche—on the tail; gṛhītvā—grabbing; tam—him; kṛṣṇaḥ—Kṛṣṇa; cakarṣa—did; āśu——at once; dhanu-śatam—two hundred yards; kṛṣṇa-hastāt—from Kṛṣṇa's hand; viniṣkramya—escaping; sarpaḥ—the snake; tam—Him; vyadaśat—bit; punaḥ—again.
English translation of verse 2.12.11:
Then Kṛṣṇa grabbed the snake's tail and suddenly threw it two hundred yards away. As it was being thrown by Kṛṣṇa's hand, the snake bit the Lord again.