Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.2.5, 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 5 of Chapter 2 (The Killing of Keshi) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

हरिं पश्चिम-पादाभ्यां
सन्तताड महासुरः
चालयन् पृथिवीं राजन्
नादयन् व्योम-मण्डलम्

hariṃ paścima-pādābhyāṃ
santatāḍa mahāsuraḥ
cālayan pṛthivīṃ rājan
nādayan vyoma-maṇḍalam

harim—Kṛṣṇa; paścima-pādābhyām—with his hind legs; santatāḍa—hit; mahāsuraḥthe great demon; cālayan—shaking; pṛthivīm—the ground; rājanO king; nādayan—neighing; vyoma-maṇḍalam—the circle of the sky.

English translation of verse 5.2.5:

O king, then, shaking the ground, and making the sky echo with his neighing, with his hind legs the great demon kicked Lord Kṛṣṇa.

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