Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.2.46, 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:

यस्मिन् निलीनौ ज्ञात्वा ताव्
एधोभिस् तं ददाह ह
भास्मी-भूते वने जाते
दह्यमान-तत-गिरेः

yasmin nilīnau jñātvā tāv
edhobhis taṃ dadāha ha
bhāsmī-bhūte vane jāte
dahyamāna-tata-gireḥ

yasminin which; nilīnau—entered; jñātvāknowing; tāv—Them; edhobhiḥ—with fire; tam—that; dadāha—set afire; ha—indeed; bhāsmī-bhūte—burned to ashes; vane—the forest; jāte—manifested; dahyamāna-tata-gireḥ—of the burning mountain.

English translation of verse 6.2.46:

Aware that Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma were hiding in the mountain, Jarāsandha set the mountain on fire and burned all its forests to ashes.

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