Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.1.29, 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 6.1.29
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
रथाङ्गावर्त-सम्युक्ता
सेना-द्वय-तटावृता
शत-योजन-विस्तीर्णा
बभौ वैतारणी यथा
rathāṅgāvarta-samyuktā
senā-dvaya-taṭāvṛtā
śata-yojana-vistīrṇā
babhau vaitāraṇī yathā
rathāṅga—chariot wheels; āvarta-samyuktā—with whirlpools; senā—armies; dvaya—two; taṭa—shores; āvṛtā—filled; śata-yojana-vistīrṇā—eight hundred miles; babhau—shone; vaitāraṇī—the vaitarani river in the hellihs worlds; yathā—as.
English translation of verse 6.1.29:
. . . and the chariot wheels whirlpools. The two armies its shores, that river flowed for eight hundred miles like the river Vaitaraṇī in the hellish worlds.