Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 3.5.4, 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 5 (The Dispute Among the Gopas) of Canto 3 (giriraja-khanda).
Verse 3.5.4
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
अयं बिभ्रद् गिरि-वरं
कमलं गज-राड् इव
उच्छिलीन्ध्रं यथा बालो
हस्तेनैकेन लीलया
ayaṃ bibhrad giri-varaṃ
kamalaṃ gaja-rāḍ iva
ucchilīndhraṃ yathā bālo
hastenaikena līlayā
ayam—He; bibhrat—holding; giri-varam—the greatest of mountains; kamalam—a lotus flower; gaja-rāḍ—the king of elephants; iva—like; ucchilīndhram—a mushroom; yathā—as; bālaḥ—a boy; hastena ekena—with one hand; līlayā—playfully.
English translation of verse 3.5.4:
With one hand He playfully held up the greatest of mountains as an elephant holds up a lotus flower or a child holds up a mushroom.