Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verses 5.7.16-17, 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 7 (The Killing of Kuvalayapida) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verses 5.7.16-17
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
गोमूत्र-चय-सिन्दूर-
कस्तूरी-पत्र-भृन्-मुखं स्रवन्-मद-महा-मत्तं रत्न-कुण्डल-
मण्डितम्
गजं कुवलयापीडं
रङ्ग-द्वारम् अवस्थितम्
वीक्ष्य कृष्णो महा-मात्रं
प्राह गम्भीरया गिरा
gomūtra-caya-sindūra-
kastūrī-patra-bhṛn-mukhaṃ sravan-mada-mahā-mattaṃ ratna-kuṇḍala-
maṇḍitam
gajaṃ kuvalayāpīḍaṃ
raṅga-dvāram avasthitam
vīkṣya kṛṣṇo mahā-mātraṃ
prāha gambhīrayā girā
gomūtra-caya—with abundant gomutra; sindūra—sindura; kastūrī—musk; patra—cups; bhṛt—holding; mukham—face; sravat—flowing; mada-mahā-mattam—maddened; ratna-kuṇḍala-maṇḍitam—decorated with jewel earrings; gajam—elephant; kuvalayāpīḍam—Kuvalayāpīḍa; raṅga-dvāram—the entrance to the arena; avasthitam—standing; vīkṣya—seeing; kṛṣṇaḥ—Kṛṣṇa; mahā-mātram—to the elphant trainer; prāha—said; gambhīrayā—in a deep; girā—voice.
English translation of verses 5.7.16-17:
Seeing the maddened elephant Kuvalayāpīḍa anointed with gomūtra, sindūra, and musk, decorated with jewel earrings, and its ichor flowing, blocking the entrance to the arena, in a deep voice Lord Kṛṣṇa said to the elephant trainer: