Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.14.13, 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 14 (Description of Kaliya’s Story) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

कुपितो गरुडस् तं वै
नीत्वा तुण्डेन कालियम्
निपात्य भूम्यं सहसा
तत्-तनुं विचकर्ष ह

kupito garuḍas taṃ vai
nītvā tuṇḍena kāliyam
nipātya bhūmyaṃ sahasā
tat-tanuṃ vicakarṣa ha

kupitaḥanghry; garuḍaḥgaruḍa; tam—him; vai—indeed; nītvā—bringing; tuṇḍena—with the beak; kāliyam—Kaliya; nipātya—throwing; bhūmyām—to the ground; sahasāviolently; tat-tanum—his body; vicakarṣa—dragged; ha—indeed.

English translation of verse 2.14.13:

Then Garuḍa became angry. Taking Kāliya in his beak, he threw him to the ground and savagely dragged him here and there.

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