Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.6.21, 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).
Verse 6.6.21
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
प्रलयाब्धि-समं सैन्यं
समालोक्य यदुत्तमाः
तर्तुम् आजग्मुर् आरात् ते
कृष्ण-कैवर्त-पोतकाः
pralayābdhi-samaṃ sainyaṃ
samālokya yaduttamāḥ
tartum ājagmur ārāt te
kṛṣṇa-kaivarta-potakāḥ
pralaya—of devastation; abdhi—the ocean; samam—like; sainyam—army; samālokya—seeing; yaduttamaḥ—the best of the Yādavas; tartum—to cross; ājagmuḥ—came; ārāt—near; te—they; kṛṣṇa-kaivarta-potakāḥ—they who have Kṛṣṇa as their captain.
English translation of verse 6.6.21:
Seeing this army like a great ocean of devastation, the Yādavas, led by Kṛṣṇa, approached it in order to cross beyond it.