Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.24.36, 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:

तद्-व्योम्नि प्रगतं दृष्ट्वा
हलास्त्रं च स्वतः प्रभुः
समुत्पत्याकृष्य बलान्
मध्ये तान् विददार ह

tad-vyomni pragataṃ dṛṣṭvā
halāstraṃ ca svataḥ prabhuḥ
samutpatyākṛṣya balān
madhye tān vidadāra ha

tad-vyomni—in the sky; pragatam—gone; dṛṣṭvāseeing; halāstram—Lord Balarāma's plow; ca—and; svataḥ—own; prabhuḥ—the Lord; samutpatya—lifting; ākṛṣyadragging; balān—by force; madhye—in the middle; tān—them; vidadāra—cut; ha—indeed.

English translation of verse 5.24.36:

Seeing that His club was still in the sky, the Lord took up His plow weapon and continued to break apart the clouds.

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