Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.8.4, 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 8 (The Killing of Kamsa) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

तस्य मुष्टि-प्रहारेण
न चचाल परात् परः
सद्यो गृहीत्वा चाणूरं
पातयाम् आस भू-तले

tasya muṣṭi-prahāreṇa
na cacāla parāt paraḥ
sadyo gṛhītvā cāṇūraṃ
pātayām āsa bhū-tale

tasya—of him; muṣṭi-prahāreṇa—by the punch; na—not; cacāla—wavered; parāt—than the greatest; paraḥ—greater; sadyaḥ—at once; gṛhītvāgrabbing; cāṇūraṃ-Cāṇūra; pātayām āsa—threw; bhū-tale—to the ground.

English translation of verse 5.8.4:

Unmoved by the punch, Lord Kṛṣṇa, who is greater than the greatest, suddenly grabbed Cāṇūra and threw him to the ground.

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