Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.1.26, 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 6.1.26
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
क्षण-मात्रेण तद्-युद्धे
शत-क्रोश-विलम्बिता
आपगाभून् महा-दुर्गा
रुधिर-स्रव-सम्भवाः
kṣaṇa-mātreṇa tad-yuddhe
śata-krośa-vilambitā
āpagābhūn mahā-durgā
rudhira-srava-sambhavāḥ
kṣaṇa-mātreṇa—for a moment; tad-yuddhe—in that battle; śata-krośa-vilambitā—for two hundred miles; āpagā—a river; abhūt—was; mahā-durgā—impassable; rudhira-srava-sambhavāḥ—created from flowing blood.
English translation of verse 6.1.26:
In that battle there was for two-hundred miles a flowing river of blood, . . .