Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.6.16, 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 6 (Seeing Shri Mathura) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.6.16
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
आक्रम्य पद्भ्यां प्रपदे ऽङ्गुलि-द्वयं
प्रोत्तान-हस्तेन विभुः परेश्वरः
प्रगृह्य नृणां चिबुके प्रपश्यतां
वक्रां तनुं ताम् उदनीनमद् धरिः
ākramya padbhyāṃ prapade 'ṅguli-dvayaṃ
prottāna-hastena vibhuḥ pareśvaraḥ
pragṛhya nṛṇāṃ cibuke prapaśyatāṃ
vakrāṃ tanuṃ tām udanīnamad dhariḥ
ākramya—stepping; padbhyām—with both feet; prapade—on the toes; aṅguli-dvayam—with two fingers; prottāna-hastena—with an extended hand; vibhuḥ—the Lord; pareśvaraḥ—the supreme controller; pragṛhya—grasping; nṛṇām—as the people; cibuke—the chin; prapaśyatām—watched; vakrām—the crooked; tanum—body; tām—here; udanīnamat—pulled; hariḥ—Lord Kṛṣṇa.
English translation of verse 5.6.16:
With both feet stepping on her toes, and with two fingers of an outretched hand grasping her chin, Lord Kṛṣṇa, the almighty Supreme Personality of Godhead, as everyone watched, suddenly jerked her crooked body.