Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.6.16, 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 6 (The Yadavas’ Victory When Shri Rukmini is Kidnapped) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).

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

एवम् उक्त्वा क्रोध-परा
जगृहुः शस्त्र-संहतिम्
विसृज्य क्रीडणाक्षादीन्
दंशिताः सैन्य-सम्युताः

evam uktvā krodha-parā
jagṛhuḥ śastra-saṃhatim
visṛjya krīḍaṇākṣādīn
daṃśitāḥ sainya-samyutāḥ

evam—thus; uktvā—speaking; krodha-parāangry; jagṛhuḥ—took; śastra-saṃhatim—a host of wepaons; visṛjyaabandoning; krīḍaṇākṣādīn—games of dice and other diversions; daṃśitāḥ—bitten; sainya-samyutāḥ—with their armies.

English translation of verse 6.6.16:

Speaking these words as they threw down their dice games and other diversions, the angry kings, their pride bitten, assembled their armies and took up a host of weapons.

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