Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.1.21, 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).

Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:

एवं शार्ङ्गं समुच्चार्य
तडित्-पिङ्ग-स्फुरत्-प्रभम्
बाणौघश् छादयाम् आस
जरासन्ध-बलं हरिः

evaṃ śārṅgaṃ samuccārya
taḍit-piṅga-sphurat-prabham
bāṇaughaś chādayām āsa
jarāsandha-balaṃ hariḥ

evam—thus; śārṅgam—the Śārṅga bow; samuccārya—lifting; taḍit-piṅga-sphurat-prabham—glistening like lightning; bāṇaughaḥ—a flood of arrows; chādayām āsa—made a shadow; jarāsandha-balam—on Jarasandha's army; hariḥ—Lord Kṛṣṇa.

English translation of verse 6.1.21:

Then, lifting His Śārṅga bow glistening like lightning, Lord Kṛṣṇa unleased a flood of arrows that made a great shadow over Jarāsandha's army.

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