Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.1.28, 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:

कर-मीना मौलि-रत्न-
हार-कुण्डल-शर्करा
शस्त्र-शुक्तिश् छिन्न-शङ्खा
चामर-ध्वज-सैकता

kara-mīnā mauli-ratna-
hāra-kuṇḍala-śarkarā
śastra-śuktiś chinna-śaṅkhā
cāmara-dhvaja-saikatā

karahands; mīnāfish; maulicrown; ratnajewels; hāranecklaces; kuṇḍalaearrings; śarkarāpebbles; śastraweapons; śuktiḥ—oysters; chinna- śaṅkhāsevered heads; cāmaracamaras; dhvajaflags; saikatā—on the sandy beach.

English translation of verse 6.1.28:

. . . the severed hands fish, the helmets, earrings, and jewel necklaces pebbles, the weapons oysters, the severed heads cāmaras and flags on the sandy shore, . . .

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