Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.12.29, 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 2.12.29
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
वेणु-सङ्घर्षनोद्भूतो
दावाग्निः प्रलयाग्नि-वत्
निशीथे सर्वतो गोपान्
दग्धुम् आगतवान् स्फुरन्
veṇu-saṅgharṣanodbhūto
dāvāgniḥ pralayāgni-vat
niśīthe sarvato gopān
dagdhum āgatavān sphuran
veṇu—of the bamboos; saṅgharṣaṇa—by the fricton; udbhūtaḥ—born; dāvāgniḥ—a forest fire; pralayāgni-vat—like the fire at the time of cosmic devastation; niśīthe—in the middle of the night; sarvataḥ—everywhere; gopān—the gopas; dagdhum—to burn; āgatavān—came; sphuran—manifesting.
English translation of verse 2.12.29:
Born from the natural fricton of the bamboos, a forest fire like the great fire at the end of creation came in the middle of the night to consume the gopas.