Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.9.2, 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 9 (The Happiness of the Yadus) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.9.2
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
स्वतस् तयोर् बन्धनानि
ययुः शिथिलितां नृप
तौ वीक्ष्य गरुडं प्राप्तं
नाग-पाश-गुणा यथा
svatas tayor bandhanāni
yayuḥ śithilitāṃ nṛpa
tau vīkṣya garuḍaṃ prāptaṃ
nāga-pāśa-guṇā yathā
svataḥ—personally; tayoḥ—of Them; bandhanāni—the bonds; yayuḥ—went; śithilitām—to looseness; nṛpa—O king; tau—Them; vīkṣya—seeing; garuḍam—Garuḍa; prāptam—attained; nāga-pāśa-guṇā—the snake ropes; yathā—as.
English translation of verse 5.9.2:
O king, seeing their condition, Lord Kṛṣṇa at once untied their bonds, as Garuḍa unties a knotted rope of snakes.