Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.1.25, 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:

अधो-मुखा ऊर्ध्व-मुखास्
छिन्न-देहा नृपात्मजाः
रेजू रणाङ्गने राजन्
भाण्ड-व्यूहा इवाहताः

adho-mukhā ūrdhva-mukhās
chinna-dehā nṛpātmajāḥ
rejū raṇāṅgane rājan
bhāṇḍa-vyūhā ivāhatāḥ

adho-mukhāḥfaces down; ūrdhva-mukhāḥ—faces up; chinna-dehā—broken bodies; nṛpātmajāḥ—princes; rejū—shone; raṇāṅgane—in the batllefield; rājanO king; bhāṇḍa-vyūhāpots; iva—like; āhatāḥ—broken.

English translation of verse 6.1.25:

O king, their faces up or down and their bodies broken, the princes littered the battlefield like so many broken earthen pots.

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