Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.12.16, 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 2.12.16
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
स-तालं पद-विन्यासैस्
तत्-फणान् सोज्ज्वलान् बहून्
बभञ्ज श्वसतः कृष्णः
कालियस्य महात्मनः
sa-tālaṃ pada-vinyāsais
tat-phaṇān sojjvalān bahūn
babhañja śvasataḥ kṛṣṇaḥ
kāliyasya mahātmanaḥ
sa-tālam—with rhythm; pada-vinyāsaiḥ—with steps; tat-phaṇān—the hoods; sojjvalān—splendid; bahūn—many; babhañja—broke; śvasataḥ—hissing; kṛṣṇaḥ—Kṛṣṇa; kāliyasya—of Kaliya; mahātmanaḥ—the great soul.
English translation of verse 2.12.16:
With rhythmic dance-steps, Kṛṣṇa broke the many splendid hoods of the great saint that was the hissing snake Kāliya.