Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.2.11, 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 2 (Residence in Shri Dvaraka) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).

Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:

निरायुधं हरिं ज्ञात्वा
मयोक्तैर् लक्षणैः खलः
निरयुधः स तं योद्धुं
पदातिः स्वयम् आगतः

nirāyudhaṃ hariṃ jñātvā
mayoktair lakṣaṇaiḥ khalaḥ
nirayudhaḥ sa taṃ yoddhuṃ
padātiḥ svayam āgataḥ

nirāyudham—unarmed; harim—Kṛṣṇa; jñātvāunderstanding; mayāby me; uktaiḥ—described; lakṣaṇaiḥ—by the characteristics; khalaḥthe demon; nirayudhaḥ—unarmed; sa—he; tam—to Him; yoddhum—to fight; padātiḥon foot; svayam—personally; āgataḥ—approached.

English translation of verse 6.2.11:

Aware, by the description I had given him, that this unarmed person was Kṛṣṇa, the demon put down his arms and walked to Kṛṣṇa to start a fight.

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