Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.9.21, 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).

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

श्री-कृष्णस्य निपातेन
त्रि-लोकी-भार-धारिणः
चकम्पे ऽब्धिर् भृशं वज्रा-
कुटेनेव विदेह-राट्

śrī-kṛṣṇasya nipātena
tri-lokī-bhāra-dhāriṇaḥ
cakampe 'bdhir bhṛśaṃ vajrā-
kuṭeneva videha-rāṭ

śrī-kṛṣṇasya—of Śrī Kṛṣṇa; nipātena—by the dive; tri-lokī-bhāra-dhāriṇaḥ—holding the three worlds; cakampe—trembled; abdhiḥ—the ocean; bhṛśam—greatly; vajrā-kuṭena—with a thunderbolt; iva—like; videha-rāṭ—O king of Videha.

English translation of verse 5.9.21:

O king of Videha, when Lord Kṛṣṇa dove into it, the ocean, which holds up the three worlds, trembled as if it had been struck by a thunderbolt.

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