Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.10.6, 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 4 of Chapter 10 (The Story of the Pulinda Women) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).
Verse 4.10.6
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
योजन-द्वयम् उच्चाङ्गं
काल-मेघ-सम-द्युतिम्
किरीट-कुण्डल-धरं
सर्प-हार-विभूषितम्
yojana-dvayam uccāṅgaṃ
kāla-megha-sama-dyutim
kirīṭa-kuṇḍala-dharaṃ
sarpa-hāra-vibhūṣitam
yojana-dvayam—sixteen miles; uccāṅgam—tall; kāla-megha-sama-dyutim—the color fo a dark cloud; kirīṭa—helmet; kuṇḍala—and earrings; dharam—wearing; sarva-hāra-vibhūṣitam—garlanded with a serpent.
English translation of verse 4.10.6:
He was sixteen miles tall, dark as a cloud, decorated with helmet and earrings, and garlanded with a serpent.