Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.24.53, 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 5.24.53
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
दृढाश्वो वङ्ग-राजो ऽभूत्
कुरूपं लोमश-मुनिं
दृष्ट्वा जहास सततं
तं शशाप महा-मुनिः
dṛḍhāśvo vaṅga-rājo 'bhūt
kurūpaṃ lomaśa-muniṃ
dṛṣṭvā jahāsa satataṃ
taṃ śaśāpa mahā-muniḥ
dṛḍhāśvaḥ—Dṛḍhāśva; vaṅga-rājaḥ—the king of Bengal; abhūt—was; kurūpam—deformed; lomasa-munim—Lomaśa Muni; dṛṣṭvā—seeing; jahāsa—laughed; satatam—always; tam—him; śaśāpa—cursed; mahā-muniḥ—the great sage.
English translation of verse 5.24.53:
There was a king of Bengal named Dṛḍhāśva who always laughed at deformed Lomaśa Muni. The great sage Lomaśa cursed him: