Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 3.2.19, 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).

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

वयस्या बालका सर्वे
कृष्णोक्ताः स-बला नृप
स्वान् स्वांश् च लगुडान् अद्रेर्
अवष्टम्भान् प्रचक्रिरे

vayasyā bālakā sarve
kṛṣṇoktāḥ sa-balā nṛpa
svān svāṃś ca laguḍān adrer
avaṣṭambhān pracakrire

vayasyāḥfriends; bālakāboys; sarve—all; kṛṣṇaby Kṛṣṇa; uktāḥtoild; sa-balāwith Balarāma; nṛpaO king; svān svān—their own; ca—and; laguḍān—sticks; adreḥ—of the hill; avaṣṭambhān—holding up; pracakrire—did.

English translation of verse 3.2.19:

O king, when Kṛṣṇa asked, Balarāma and all the boys His age steadied the the hill with their sticks.

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