Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.6.33, 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:

लक्ष-भार-मयी गुर्वी
दृढा कौमोदकी यथा
तया गदो ऽहनच् छाल्वं
वज्रेणेन्द्रो यथा गिरिम्

lakṣa-bhāra-mayī gurvī
dṛḍhā kaumodakī yathā
tayā gado 'hanac chālvaṃ
vajreṇendro yathā girim

lakṣa-bhāra-mayīa hundred thousand bharas; gurvī—heavy; dṛḍhāfirm; kaumodakīKaumodaki; yathā—as; tayāby that; gadaḥGada; ahanat—struck; śālvam—Salva; vajreṇa—with a thunderbolt; indraḥIndra; yathā—as; girim—a mountain.

English translation of verse 6.6.33:

With that club, heavy as a hundred thousand bhāras and strong as Kṛṣṇa's club Kaumodakī, Gada struck Śālva as with his thunderbolt Indra strikes a mountain.

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