Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.7.49, 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:

ग्रीवायां किल चाणूरं
भुज-वेगेन माधवः
कट्यां चोद्धृत्य सहसा
पातयाम् आस भू-तले

grīvāyāṃ kila cāṇūraṃ
bhuja-vegena mādhavaḥ
kaṭyāṃ coddhṛtya sahasā
pātayām āsa bhū-tale

grīvāyām—on the neck; kilaindeed; cāṇūram—Canura; bhuja-vegena—with the power of His arms; mādhavaḥ—Kṛṣṇa; kaṭyām—on the waist; ca—and; uddhṛtya—lifting; sahasāsuddenly; pātayām āsa—threw; bhū-tale—to the ground.

English translation of verse 5.7.49:

With one hand on his neck and the other on his waist, Kṛṣṇa suddenly picked up Cāṇūra and threw him to the gound.

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