Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.24.25, 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).
Verse 5.24.25
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
मुसलेन तदा रामस्
तच्-छूलं शतधाच्छिनत्
काच-पात्रं यथा बलो
दण्डेन च विदेह-राट्
musalena tadā rāmas
tac-chūlaṃ śatadhācchinat
kāca-pātraṃ yathā balo
daṇḍena ca videha-rāṭ
musalena—with His club; tadā—then; rāmaḥ—Balarāma; tac-chūlam—the spear; śatadhā—in a hundred pieces; acchinat—shattered; kāca-pātram—a crystal goblet; yathā—as; balaḥ—Balarāma; daṇḍena—with a stick; ca—and; videha-rāṭ—O king of Videha.
English translation of verse 5.24.25:
O king of Videha, with His club Lord Balarāma shattered that spear into a hundred pieces as one shatters a crystal goblet with an iron rod.