Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.14.47, 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 14 (The Meeting of King Nanda and Uddhava) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

द्विपम् कुवलयपिदम् नगयुत-समम् बले चुन्द-दन्दे सग्ग्र्हित्व पतयम् अस भु-तले

dvipam kuvalayapidam nagayuta-samam bale cunda-dande saggrhitva patayam asa bhu-tale

dvipam—the elephant; kuvalayapidam—Kuvalayapida; nagayuta-samamequal to ten thousand other elephants; balein strength; cunda-dande—the trunk; saggrhitva—grabbing; patayam asa—threw; bhu-tale—to the ground.

English translation of verse 5.14.47:

Grabbing the trunk of Kuvalayapida elephant, who was a strong as ten thousand other elephants, Krsna threw it to the ground.

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