Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.7.24, 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).

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

तम् अन्वधावन् नागेन्द्रो
मथुरायां विदेह-राट्
कोलाहले तदा जाते
हरिस् तस्माद् इतो ययौ

tam anvadhāvan nāgendro
mathurāyāṃ videha-rāṭ
kolāhale tadā jāte
haris tasmād ito yayau

tam—Him; anvadhāvan—chasing; nāgendraḥthe royal elephant; mathurāyām—in Mathurā; videha-rāṭ—O king of Videha; kolāhale—a tumult; tadāthen; jāte—was manifested; hariḥ—Kṛṣṇa; tasmāt—from it; itaḥ—here; yayau—went.

English translation of verse 5.7.24:

O king of Videha, when Kṛṣṇa fled and the elephant chased Him through Mathurā City, there was great uproar.

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