Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 3.4.9, 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 4 (The Coronation-Bathing of Shri Krishna) of Canto 3 (giriraja-khanda).
Verse 3.4.9
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
शुण्डा-दण्डैश् चतुर्भिश् च
द्यु-गङ्गा-जल-पूरितैः
श्री-कृष्णं स्नापयाम् आस
मत्त ऐरावतो गजः
śuṇḍā-daṇḍaiś caturbhiś ca
dyu-gaṅgā-jala-pūritaiḥ
śrī-kṛṣṇaṃ snāpayām āsa
matta airāvato gajaḥ
śuṇḍā-daṇḍaiḥ—with trunks; caturbhiś—four; ca—and; dyu-gaṅgā-jala-pūritaiḥ—filled with water from the celestial Gaṅgā; śrī-kṛṣṇam—Śrī Kṛṣṇa; snāpayām āsa—bathed; matta—intoxicated; airāvataḥ—Airāvata; gajaḥ—elephant.
English translation of verse 3.4.9:
Its four trunks filled with celestial Gaṅgā water, the intoxicated elephant Airāvata bathed Lord Kṛṣṇa.