Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.24.35, 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:

बलास्त्रं मुसलं रेजे
भ्रमद् दश-दिग्-अन्तरे
विदारयद् घनान् व्योम्नि
नीहारं च यथा रविः

balāstraṃ musalaṃ reje
bhramad daśa-dig-antare
vidārayad ghanān vyomni
nīhāraṃ ca yathā raviḥ

balaLord Balarāma's; astram—weapon; musalam—club; reje—shone; bhramatwandering; daśa-dig-antare—the ten directions; vidārayat—cutting apart; ghanān—the clouds; vyomni—in the sky; nīhāram—fog; ca—and; yathā—as; raviḥ—the sun.

English translation of verse 5.24.35:

Lord Balarāma's club circled the ten directions, cutting away the clouds as the the sun cuts away the morning fog.

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