Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.1.27, 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:

द्विप-ग्राहा चोष्ट्र-खर-
कबन्धाश्वादि-कच्छपा
शिशुमार-रथा केश-
शैवला भुज-सर्पिणी

dvipa-grāhā coṣṭra-khara-
kabandhāśvādi-kacchapā
śiśumāra-rathā keśa-
śaivalā bhuja-sarpiṇī

dvipathe elephants; grāhā—crocodiles; ca—and; uṣṭracamels; kharamules; kabandhaheadless corpses; aśvahorses; ādi—beginning with; kacchapāturtles; śiśumāraporpoises; rathā—chariots; keśahair; śaivalā—moss; bhujaarms; sarpiṇīsnakes.

English translation of verse 6.1.27:

. . . where the elephants were crocodiles, the camels, mules, horses, and headless corpses giant turtles, the chariots porpoises, the severed arms snakes, . . .

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