Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.8.20, 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 8 (The Marriages of All the Queens) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).
Verse 6.8.20
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
तथा षोडश-साहस्रं
शतं च नृप-कन्यकाः
भौमं हत्वा तन्-निरोधाद्
आहृताश् चारु-दर्शनाः
tathā ṣoḍaśa-sāhasraṃ
śataṃ ca nṛpa-kanyakāḥ
bhaumaṃ hatvā tan-nirodhād
āhṛtāś cāru-darśanāḥ
tathā—then; ṣoḍaśa-sāhasraṃ śatam—16,100; ca—and; nṛpa-kanyakāḥ—princesses; bhaumam—Bhaumāsura; hatvā—killing; tan-nirodhāt—from his prison; āhṛtāś—taken; cāru-darśanāḥ—very beautiful.
English translation of verse 6.8.20:
Then Lord Kṛṣṇa killed the demon Bhaumāsura and released from his prison
16,100 beautiful princesses.