Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.8.28, 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).

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

तस्मात् सुतो ऽनिरुद्धो ऽभून्
नागायुत-बलान्वितः
सुर-ज्येष्ठावतारो ऽयं
शारदेन्दीवर-प्रभः

tasmāt suto 'niruddho 'bhūn
nāgāyuta-balānvitaḥ
sura-jyeṣṭhāvatāro 'yaṃ
śāradendīvara-prabhaḥ

tasmāt—from him; sutaḥthe son; aniruddhaḥAniruddha; abhūt—was; nāgāyuta-balānvitaḥ—as strong as ten thousand elephants; suraof the demigods; jyeṣṭhathe best; avatāraḥ—the incarnation; ayamhe; śāradendīvara-prabhaḥ—glorious as a blue lotus growing in the autumn.

English translation of verse 6.8.28:

From Pradyumna was born a son, Aniruddha, who was strong as ten thousand elephants and glorious as a blue autumn lotus. He was an incarnation of the first of the demigods.

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