Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.10.7, 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).

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

पादयोः शृङ्खलायुक्तं
गदा-पाणिं कृतान्तवत्
ललज्-जिह्वं घोर-रूपं
पातयन्तं गिरीन् द्रुमान्

pādayoḥ śṛṅkhalāyuktaṃ
gadā-pāṇiṃ kṛtāntavat
lalaj-jihvaṃ ghora-rūpaṃ
pātayantaṃ girīn drumān

pādayoḥ—of the feet; śṛṅkhalāyuktam—with a chain; gadā-pāṇim—a club in hand; kṛtāntavat—like death personified; lalaj-jihvam—a lolling tongue; ghora-rūpam—ugly and horrible; pātayantam—made fall down; girīn—the hills; drumān—and trees.

English translation of verse 4.10.7:

With chains around his ankles, a club in his hand, a tongue moving to and fro, and a horribly ugly form, he looked like death personified. When he walked he flattened the hills and made the trees fall.

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