Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.12.21, 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:

श्री-नारद उवाच
नाग-पत्नि-स्तुतः कृष्णः
कालियं विगत-स्मयम्
विससर्ज हरिः साक्षात्
परिपूर्णतमः स्वयम्

śrī-nārada uvāca
nāga-patni-stutaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ
kāliyaṃ vigata-smayam
visasarja hariḥ sākṣāt
paripūrṇatamaḥ svayam

śrī-nārada uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; nāgaof the snake; patniby the wives; stutaḥoffered prayers; kṛṣṇaḥKṛṣṇa; kāliyam—Kaliya; vigatagone; smayam—pride; visasarja—made; hariḥ—Kṛṣṇa; sākṣātdirectly; paripūrṇatamaḥ—the Supreme Personality of Godhead; svayam—Himself.

English translation of verse 2.12.21:

Śrī Nārada said: When the snake's wives offered these prayers, Kṛṣṇa, the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, made Kāliya completely prideless.

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