Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.12.12, 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).

Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:

तताड मुष्टिना सर्पं
त्रैलोक्य-बल-धरकः
कृष्ण-मुष्टि-प्रहारेण
मूर्च्छितो विगत-स्मृतिः

tatāḍa muṣṭinā sarpaṃ
trailokya-bala-dharakaḥ
kṛṣṇa-muṣṭi-prahāreṇa
mūrcchito vigata-smṛtiḥ

tatāḍa—struck; muṣṭinā—with a fist; sarpam—the sanke; trailokya-bala-dharakaḥ—who had all the strength in the three worlds; kṛṣṇaof Kṛṣṇa; muṣṭi-prahāreṇa—with a punch; mūrcchitaḥ—fainted; vigata-smṛtiḥ—unconscious.

English translation of verse 2.12.12:

Then Kṛṣṇa, who has all the strength in the three worlds, punched the snake.

With Kṛṣṇa's punch, the snake fell unconscious.

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