Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.1.17, 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 6 of Chapter 1 (Jarasandha’s Defeat) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).
Verse 6.1.17
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
बाणान्धकारे सञ्जाते
शत्रु-सेना-समाकुले
टाङ्करं शार्ङ्ग-धनुषः
शार्ङ्ग-धन्वा चकार ह
bāṇāndhakāre sañjāte
śatru-senā-samākule
ṭāṅkaraṃ śārṅga-dhanuṣaḥ
śārṅga-dhanvā cakāra ha
bāṇāndhakāre—in a darkness of arrows; sañjāte—manifested; śatru-senā-samākule—the enemy armies; ṭāṅkaram—twanging; śārṅga-dhanuṣaḥ—of the Śārṅga bow; śārṅga-dhanvā—the holder of the Śārṅga bow; cakāra—did; ha—indeed.
English translation of verse 6.1.17:
When the enemy armies darkened the sky with a shower of arrows, Lord Kṛṣṇa filled the sky with the twanging sounds of His Śārṅga bow.