Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.9.24, 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:

सहसोत्थाय देवेशं
किञ्चिद् व्याकुल-मानसः
मूर्ध्ना तताड पक्षीन्द्रं
स्व-फणेन फानी यथा

sahasotthāya deveśaṃ
kiñcid vyākula-mānasaḥ
mūrdhnā tatāḍa pakṣīndraṃ
sva-phaṇena phānī yathā

sahasāat once; utthāyarising; deveśam—the Supreme Personality of Godhead; kiñcita little; vyākula-mānasaḥ—agitated at heart; mūrdhnā—with his head; tatāḍa—struck; pakṣīndram—Garuḍa; sva-phaṇena—with his cvoils; phānīa snake; yathā—as.

English translation of verse 5.9.24:

Suddenly getting up, and now a little agitated at heart, with his head the demon struck Lord Kṛṣṇa as with its hood a snake strikes Garuḍa.

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