Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.20.10, 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 20 (The Killing of Pralamba) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).

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

बभौ बलो दैत्य-प्र्स्थे सुन्दरो लोल-कुण्डलः

babhau balo daitya-prsthe sundaro lola-kuṇḍalaḥ

आकाच-स्थ पुर्न-चन्द्रः

ākāca-stha purna-candraḥ

sa-taḍij-jalato yathā babhau—was splendidly manifest; balaḥBalarāma; daitya-prsthe—on the demon's back; sundaraḥhandsome; lola-kuṇḍalaḥswinging earring; ākāca—in the sky; sthasituated; purna-candraḥa full moon; sa-taḍij-jalataḥ—a cloud with lightning; yathā—as.

English translation of verse 4.20.10:

Riding on the demon's back, handsome Balarāma was splendid as a moving earring, a full moon in the sky, or a glittering lightning flash.

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