Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.8.39, 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 5.8.39
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
हुङ्कारेणैव शस्त्राणि
तेषां हस्तेभ्य आभयात्
पेतुर् अम्र-फलानीव
दण्ड-घातैश् च मैथिल
huṅkāreṇaiva śastrāṇi
teṣāṃ hastebhya ābhayāt
petur amra-phalānīva
daṇḍa-ghātaiś ca maithila
huṅkāreṇa—by the roar; eva—indeed; śastrāṇi—the eapons; teṣām—of them; hastebhya—from the hands; ābhayāt—out of fear; petuḥ—fell; amra-phalāni—mangoes; iva—like; daṇḍa-ghātaiḥ—with a stick; ca—and; maithila—O king of Mithilā.
English translation of verse 5.8.39:
The brothers were terrified by that roar. Their weapons suddenly fell, as mangoes fall when hit by a stick.