Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.6.33, 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:

विचेलुर् दिग्-गजास् तारा
राजद्-भू-खण्ड-मण्डलम्
तदैव बधिरी-भूत
पृथिव्यां जन-मण्डली

vicelur dig-gajās tārā
rājad-bhū-khaṇḍa-maṇḍalam
tadaiva badhirī-bhūta
pṛthivyāṃ jana-maṇḍalī

viceluḥ—trembled; dig-gajāḥthe elphants of the directions; tarathe stars; rājad-bhū-khaṇḍa-maṇḍalam—the circle of the earth; tadāthen; eva—indeed; badhirī-bhūtadeafened; pṛthivyām—on the earth; jana-maṇḍalīthe people.

English translation of verse 5.6.33:

The earth, the stars, and the elephants holding up the directions all shook. The people on the earth were deafened by the sound.

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