Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 3.2.5, 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 3 of Chapter 2 (The Great Festival of Shri Giriraja) of Canto 3 (giriraja-khanda).
Verse 3.2.5
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
हस्ति-तुल्यान् वारि-बिन्दून्
ववृषुस् ते मदोद्धताः
हस्ति-षुण्डा-समाभिश् च
धाराभिश् चञ्चलाश् च ये
hasti-tulyān vāri-bindūn
vavṛṣus te madoddhatāḥ
hasti-ṣuṇḍā-samābhiś ca
dhārābhiś cañcalāś ca ye
hasti—to an elephant; tulyān—equal; vāri-bindūn—raindrops; vavṛṣuḥ—rained; te—they; madoddhatāḥ—furious; hasti—elephant; ṣuṇḍā—trunks; samābhiḥ—equal to; ca—and; dhārābhiś—with streams; cañcalāḥ—lightning; ca—and; ye—which.
English translation of verse 3.2.5:
Furious, they showered raindrops as big as elephants and thunderbolts as big as elephants' trunks.