Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 3.10.8, 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 10 (The Glory of Shri Giriraja) of Canto 3 (giriraja-khanda).

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

गिरिराजोद्भवेनासौ
पाषाणेन जघान तम्
गिरिराज-शिला-स्पर्शात्
त्यक्त्वासौ राक्षसीं तनुम्

girirājodbhavenāsau
pāṣāṇena jaghāna tam
girirāja-śilā-sparśāt
tyaktvāsau rākṣasīṃ tanum

girirājaon Govardhana Hill; udbhavena—manifested; asau—he; pāṣāṇena—the stone; jaghāna—hit; tam—him; girirāja-śilāof the stone from Govardhana Hill; sparśāt—from the touch; tyaktvāgave up; asau—he; rākṣasīm—of the monster; tanum—the body.

English translation of verse 3.10.8:

With his Govardhana-stone the brāhmaṇa struck the monster. Hit by the Govardhana-stone, the monster gave up his body.

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