Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.9.23, 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:

हस्ते गृहीत्वा तच्-छूलं
तेनैवाभिजघान तम्
तद्-घातेन प्रपतितो
मूर्छितो वारि-मण्डले

haste gṛhītvā tac-chūlaṃ
tenaivābhijaghāna tam
tad-ghātena prapatito
mūrchito vāri-maṇḍale

haste—in one hand; gṛhītvātaking; tac-chūlam—that spear; tena—with it; eva—indeed; abhijaghāna—struck; tam—him; tad-ghātena—by that blow; prapatitaḥ—fell; mūrchitaḥ—unconscious; vāri-maṇḍale—in the waters.

English translation of verse 5.9.23:

Catching the spear in one hand, Lord Kṛṣṇa threw it back at the demon.

Wounded by the spear, the demon fell unconscious into the waters.

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