Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verses 2.13.19-20, 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 13 (The Story of Shesha) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).
Verses 2.13.19-20
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
सा कद्रूश् च महा-सर्पान्
जनयाम् आस कोटिशः
महोद्भटान् विष-बलान्
उग्रान् पञ्च-शताननान्
महा-मणि-धरान् कांश्चिद्
दुःसहांश् च शताननान्
तेषां वेदशिरा नाम
कालियो ऽभुद् महा-फणी
sā kadrūś ca mahā-sarpān
janayām āsa koṭiśaḥ
mahodbhaṭān viṣa-balān
ugrān pañca-śatānanān
mahā-maṇi-dharān kāṃścid
duḥsahāṃś ca śatānanān
teṣāṃ vedaśirā nāma
kāliyo 'bhud mahā-phaṇī
sā-she; kadrūś—Kadru; ca—and; mahā-sarpān—great snakes; janayām āsa—gave birth; koṭiśaḥ—millions; mahodbhaṭān—very powerful; viṣa—poison; balān—strong; ugrān—horrible; pañca-śat—five hundred; ānanān—heads; mahā—great; maṇi—jewels; dharān—having; kāṃścit—some; duḥsahāṃś—invincible; ca—and; śatānanān—a hundred heads; teṣām—of them; vedaśirā—Vedasira; nāma—named; kāliyaḥ—Kaliya; abhut—became; mahā—great; phaṇī—snake.
English translation of verses 2.13.19-20:
Kadrū gave birth to many millions of great, powerful, invincible jewel-decorated, and very poisonous snakes, some having five-hundred heads, and others having a hundred heads. Among them Vedaśirā became the great snake Kāliya.