Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.24.50, 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:

श्री-नारद उवाच
कौसम्बाच् च तद् ईशान्यां
चतुर्-योजनम् एव हि
वयस्यं सूकर-क्षेत्राच्
चतुर्-योजनं एव च

śrī-nārada uvāca
kausambāc ca tad īśānyāṃ
catur-yojanam eva hi
vayasyaṃ sūkara-kṣetrāc
catur-yojanaṃ eva ca

śrī-nāradaḥŚrī Nārada; uvāca—said; kausambāt—from Kusanagara; ca—and; tat—that; īśānyām—north; catur-yojanam—four yojanas (32 miles); eva—indeed; hi—indeed; vayasyam—northwest; sūkara-kṣetrat—from Koladvīpa; ca—and; catur-yojanam—four yojanas; eva—indeed; ca—and.

English translation of verse 5.24.50:

Śrī Nārada said: It is 32 miles north of Kauśāravi City and 32 miles northwest of Koladvīpa.

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