Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.14.28, 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).
Verse 2.14.28
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-शौभरिर् उवाच
मीनान् अद्यतनाद् अत्र
यद्य् अत्सि त्वं बलाद् द्वि-राट्
तदैव प्राण-नाशस् ते
भूयान् मे शपतस् त्वरम्
śrī-śaubharir uvāca
mīnān adyatanād atra
yady atsi tvaṃ balād dvi-rāṭ
tadaiva prāṇa-nāśas te
bhūyān me śapatas tvaram
śrī-śaubharir uvāca—Śrī ŚaubhaRI SAID; mīnān—the fish; adyatanāt—from this day on; atra—here; yadi—if; atsi—eat; tvam—you balāt—violently; dvi-rāṭ—O king of birds; tadā—then; eva—indeed; prāṇa—of life; nāśaḥ—destruction; te—of you; bhūyāt—will be; me—of me; śapataḥ—by the curse; tvaram—at once.
English translation of verse 2.14.28:
Śrī Śaubhari said: O Garuḍa, O king of birds, if from today on you eat the fish here you will die at once. That is my curse.