Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.4.25, 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 4 (Journey to the City of Kundina) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).
Verse 6.4.25
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
दुर्लङ्घ्या दुर्गमा यत्र
परिखा जल-पूरिता
धनुः-शतं विष्ट्र्तास्ति
चातुर्मस्य-नदीव सा
durlaṅghyā durgamā yatra
parikhā jala-pūritā
dhanuḥ-śataṃ viṣṭrtāsti
cāturmasya-nadīva sā
durlaṅghyā—unscalable; durgamā—unapproachable; yatra—where; parikhā—a moat; jala-pūritā—filled with watger; dhanuḥ-śatam—a hundred dhanuhs; viṣṭrtā—extended; asti—is; cāturmasya—during the monsoon; nadī—a river; iva—like; sa—it.
English translation of verse 6.4.25:
That fort was encircled by an impassable moat a hundred bows wide and overflowing with water like a river swollen by the monsoon.