Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.11.18, 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).

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

मुनेः प्रभाव-वित् सद्यो
दैत्यो भूत्वा कृताञ्जलिः
नत्वा प्रदक्षिणी-कृत्य
त्रितं मुनिम् उवाच ह

muneḥ prabhāva-vit sadyo
daityo bhūtvā kṛtāñjaliḥ
natvā pradakṣiṇī-kṛtya
tritaṃ munim uvāca ha

muneḥ—of the sage; prabhāva-vit—knowing the power; sadyaḥat once; daityaḥthe Daitya; bhūtvā—becoming; kṛtāñjaliḥwith folded hands; natvā—bowing; pradakṣiṇī-kṛtyacircumambulating; tritam—Trita; munim—Muni; uvāca—said; ha—indeed.

English translation of verse 5.11.18:

Now aware of the sage's great power, Mandagati bowed with folded hands before him, circumambulated him, and then spoke.

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