Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.6.28, 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).

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

अष्ट-धातु-मयं क्लिष्टं
लक्ष-भार-समं परम्
चतुर्दश्यां पौर-जनैर्
अर्चितं यज्ञ-मण्डपे

aṣṭa-dhātu-mayaṃ kliṣṭaṃ
lakṣa-bhāra-samaṃ param
caturdaśyāṃ paura-janair
arcitaṃ yajña-maṇḍape

aṣṭa-dhātu-mayam—made of eigth metals; kliṣṭam—heavy; lakṣa-bhāra-samamheavy as a hundred thousand bharas; param—great; caturdaśyām—on caturdasi; paura-janaiḥ—by the poeople of the city; arcitam—worshiped; yajña-maṇḍape—in the sacrificial arena.

English translation of verse 5.6.28:

It was made of eight metals and weighed a hundred thousand bhāras. On caturdaśī the people of the city worshiped it is the yajña-maṇḍapa.

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