Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.7.26, 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:

प्रहसन् भगवान् कृष्णो
गृहीत्वा तं करे बलात्
चकर्ष भुज-दण्डाभ्यां
कूप-रज्जुं यथा नरः

prahasan bhagavān kṛṣṇo
gṛhītvā taṃ kare balāt
cakarṣa bhuja-daṇḍābhyāṃ
kūpa-rajjuṃ yathā naraḥ

prahasan—laughing; bhagavānLord; kṛṣṇaḥKṛṣṇa; gṛhītvāgrabbing; tam—it; kareon the trunk; balāt—forcibly; cakarṣa—dragged; bhuja-daṇḍābhyām—with both arms; kūpa-rajjum—the rope in a well; yathā—as; naraḥ—a person.

English translation of verse 5.7.26:

Laughing, Lord Kṛṣṇa grabbed the elephant's trunk and pulled it with both hands as one pulls the rope in a well.

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