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).
Verse 4.20.10
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; balaḥ—Balarāma; daitya-prsthe—on the demon's back; sundaraḥ—handsome; lola-kuṇḍalaḥ—swinging earring; ākāca—in the sky; stha—situated; purna-candraḥ—a 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.