Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 3.9.36, 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 9 (The Birth of Shri Giriraja) of Canto 3 (giriraja-khanda).
Verse 3.9.36
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
क्षण-मात्रेण वैदेह
लक्ष-योजन-विस्तृतम्
शत-कोटिर् योजनानां
लम्बितं शेषवत् पुनः
kṣaṇa-mātreṇa vaideha
lakṣa-yojana-vistṛtam
śata-koṭir yojanānāṃ
lambitaṃ śeṣavat punaḥ
kṣaṇa-mātreṇa—in onlky a moment; vaideha—O king of Videha; lakṣa-yojana-vistṛtam—eight hundred thousand miles; śata-koṭiḥ—one billion; yojanānām—yojanas; lambitam—in extent; śeṣavat—like Śeṣa; punaḥ—again.
English translation of verse 3.9.36:
O king of Videha, in a single moment that mountain became eight hundred thousand miles wide and eight billion miles long. It was like another Ananta Śeṣa.