Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.23.38, 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 23 (The Killing of Shankhacuda During the Rasa-dance Pastime) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

यत्र यत्र गतो धावन्
शङ्खचूडो महा-खलः
तत्र तत्र गतः कृष्णः
शाल-हस्तो भृशां रुषा

yatra yatra gato dhāvan
śaṅkhacūḍo mahā-khalaḥ
tatra tatra gataḥ kṛṣṇaḥ
śāla-hasto bhṛśāṃ ruṣā

yatra yatra—wherever; gataḥwent; dhāvan—running; śaṅkhacūḍaḥŚaṅkhacūḍa; mahā-khalaḥthe great demon; tatra tatra—there; gataḥ—went; kṛṣṇaḥKṛṣṇa; śāla-hastaḥ—a sala tree in His hand; bhṛśām—very; ruṣāangrily.

English translation of verse 2.23.38:

Wherever the great demon Śaṅkhacūḍa ran, angry Kṛṣṇa, a śāla tree in His hand, followed.

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