Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.24.40, 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 5.24.40
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
भग्न-दन्तश् चलन्-नेत्रो
मूर्छितो निधनं ययौ
कोलो नाम महा-दैत्यो
वृत्रो वज्र-हतो यथा
bhagna-dantaś calan-netro
mūrchito nidhanaṃ yayau
kolo nāma mahā-daityo
vṛtro vajra-hato yathā
bhagna-dantaḥ—broken teeth; calan-netraḥ—moving eyes; mūrchitaḥ—fainted; nidhanam—death; yayau—attained; kolaḥ—Kola; nāma—named; mahā-daityaḥ—the great demon; vṛtraḥ—Vṛtra; vajra—by the thunderbolt; hataḥ—struck; yathā—as.
English translation of verse 5.24.40:
His teeth broken and his eyes moving, the great demon named Kola fainted and died, as Vṛtra did when he was hit by Indra's thunderbolt.