Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.8.33, 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).
Verse 5.8.33
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
इत्थं द्वयोर् निपातेन
निम्नं भू-खण्ड-मण्डलम्
स्थलीव सहसा राजन्
चकम्पे घटिका-द्वयम्
itthaṃ dvayor nipātena
nimnaṃ bhū-khaṇḍa-maṇḍalam
sthalīva sahasā rājan
cakampe ghaṭikā-dvayam
ittham—thus; dvayoḥ—of the two; nipātena—by the falling; nimnam—cracked; bhū-khaṇḍa-maṇḍalam—the circle of the earth; sthalī—the earth; iva—as if; sahasā—suddenly; rājan—O king; cakampe—shook; ghaṭikā-dvayam—for an hour.
English translation of verse 5.8.33:
As the two of them fought the earth cracked. O king, for two hours the earth shook.