Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.7.48, 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:

चाणूरस् तं हरिं देवं
करेणैकेन लीलया
उज्जहार महा-वीरो
भू-खण्डं नाग-राड् इव

cāṇūras taṃ hariṃ devaṃ
kareṇaikena līlayā
ujjahāra mahā-vīro
bhū-khaṇḍaṃ nāga-rāḍ iva

cāṇūraḥCanura; tam—Him; harim—Kṛṣṇa; devam—teh Supreme Personality of Godhead; kareṇaikena—with one hand; līlayā—playfully; ujjahāra—lifted; mahā-vīraḥvrey heroic; bhū-khaṇḍam—the earth; nāga-rāḍ—the kinbg of serpents; iva—as.

English translation of verse 5.7.48:

As Lord Śeṣa, the king of serpents, picks up the earth, with one hand Cāṇūra playfully picked up Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

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