Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.11.14, 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 11 (The Stories of Kubja and Kuvalayapida) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.11.14
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
एकदा निर्गतः सो ऽपि
रङ्ग-यात्रां जनेषु च
मत्तेभ-वज् जनान् वेगाद्
भुजाभ्यां परिमर्दयन्
ekadā nirgataḥ so 'pi
raṅga-yātrāṃ janeṣu ca
mattebha-vaj janān vegād
bhujābhyāṃ parimardayan
ekadā—one day; nirgataḥ—gone; saḥ—he; api—also; raṅga-yātrām—on a pilgrimage to Ranga-ksetra; janeṣu—among the people; ca—and; mattebha-vaj—like a maddened elephant; janān—the people; vegāt—forcibly; bhujābhyām—with both arms; parimardayan—crushing.
English translation of verse 5.11.14:
One day, when he was on a pilgrimage to Raṅga-kṣetra, he pushed his way through a crowd, pressing people with both arms as if he were a maddened wild elephant.