Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.4.26, 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 6.4.26
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
पञ्चाशद्-धस्त-मानेन
दुर्ग-भित्तिस् तथोर्ध्व-गा
यत्र रम्याणि हर्म्याणि
स्फुरद्-धेम-शिखानि च
pañcāśad-dhasta-mānena
durga-bhittis tathordhva-gā
yatra ramyāṇi harmyāṇi
sphurad-dhema-śikhāni ca
pañcāśad-dhasta-mānena—fifty hands in measurement; durga-bhittiḥ—a great wall; tathā—so; ūrdhva—above; gā—gone; yatra—where; ramyāṇi—beuatiful; harmyāṇi—palaces; sphurad-dhema-śikhāni—with glitening golden roofs; ca—also.
English translation of verse 6.4.26:
The city was surrounded by a wall fifty hands high. In the city were many beautiful palaces with glistening golden roofs.