Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.7.17, 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 7 (The Marriage of Shri Rukmini) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).
Verse 6.7.17
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
छिन्न-धन्वाथ वैदर्भो
महा-शक्तिं स्फुरत्-प्रभम्
प्रहरद् धरये शक्तिं
विज्ञानाय यथा मुनिः
chinna-dhanvātha vaidarbho
mahā-śaktiṃ sphurat-prabham
praharad dharaye śaktiṃ
vijñānāya yathā muniḥ
chinna—broken; dhanvā—bow; atha—then; vaidarbhaḥ—Rukmi; mahā- śaktim—a great sakti weapon; sphurat-prabham—glittering; praharat—threw; dharaye—at Lord Kṛṣṇa; śaktim—power; vijñānāya—for knowledge; yathā—as; muniḥ—a sage.
English translation of verse 6.7.17:
His bow broken, Rukmī hurled a glittering śakti weapon at Lord Kṛṣṇa as a sage uses the power of his austerities to attain transcendental knowledge.