Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.14.14, 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:

तदा दुद्राव तत्-तुण्डात्
कालियो भय-विह्वलः
तम् अन्वधावत् सहसा
पक्षि-राट् चण्ड-विक्रमः

tadā dudrāva tat-tuṇḍāt
kāliyo bhaya-vihvalaḥ
tam anvadhāvat sahasā
pakṣi-rāṭ caṇḍa-vikramaḥ

tadāthen; dudrāva—ran; tat-tuṇḍāt—from the beak; kāliyaḥKaliya; bhaya-vihvalaḥterrified; tam—him; anvadhāvat—chased; sahasāquickly; pakṣiof birds; rāṭ—the king; caṇḍa-vikramaḥvery powerful.

English translation of verse 2.14.14:

Terrified Kāliya ran from Garuḍa's beak. Garuḍa, the king of birds, ardently chased him.

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