Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verses 5.24.19-21, 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 24 (The Killing of the Kola Demon) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

गोमुत्र-चय-सिन्दूर-
कस्तूरी-पत्र-भृन् मुखम्
सुवर्ण-शृङ्खलायुक्तं
प्रखचित्-कटि-बन्धनम्
स्रवन्-मदं चतुर्-दन्तं
घण्टा-टङ्कार-भीषणम्प्रोन्नतं दिग्-गजम् इव
नदत्-काल-घन-प्रभम्
शितम् अङ्कुशम् आदाय
कोल आरुह्य कर्णतः
स्व-गजं नोदयाम् आस
बलदेवाय दैत्य-राट्

gomutra-caya-sindūra-
kastūrī-patra-bhṛn mukham
suvarṇa-śṛṅkhalāyuktaṃ
prakhacit-kaṭi-bandhanam
sravan-madaṃ catur-dantaṃ
ghaṇṭā-ṭaṅkāra-bhīṣaṇampronnataṃ dig-gajam iva
nadat-kāla-ghana-prabham
śitam aṅkuśam ādāya
kola āruhya karṇataḥ
sva-gajaṃ nodayām āsa
baladevāya daitya-rāṭ

go-mutraurine; cayaabundance; sindūrasindura; kastūrī-patra-bhṛn—muslk; mukham—face; suvarṇagold; śṛṅkhalachains; āyuktam—with; prakhacit-kaṭi-bandhanam—belt; sravatflowing; madamichor; catur-dantam—four tusks; ghaṇṭā-ṭaṅkāratinkling of bells; bhīṣaṇam—fearful; pronnatam—great; dig-gajam—an elephant holding up the directions; iva—like; nadat-kāla-ghana-prabham—roaring like thunder; śitam—sharp; aṅkuśam—goad; ādāyataking; kolaKola; āruhya—mounting; karṇataḥ—by the ear; sva-gajam—his own elephant; nodayām āsa—made it charge; baladevāya—to Lord Balarāma; daitya-rāṭ—the king of demons.

English translation of verses 5.24.19-21:

Mounting by its ear his four-tusked elephant bound with golden chains, its face decorated with pictures and designs drawn in gomūtra, sindūra, and musk, its ichor flowing, its bells tinkling ominously, and its body enormous as one of the elephants holding up the directions, and making his elephant trumpet like thunder, the demon-king Kola took a sharp goad in his hand and made his elephant charge Lord Balarāma.

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