Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.13.26, 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 13 (The Glories of Prabhasa-tirtha, the Sarasvati River, Bodha-pippala, and the Place Where the Gomati River Meets the Ocean) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).
Verse 6.13.26
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
अथ कश्चिन् महान् गृध्रो
मांसं तस्य भुजस्य च
गृहीत्वा खं गतः सद्यः
खदंश् चञ्चु-पुटेन तम्
atha kaścin mahān gṛdhro
māṃsaṃ tasya bhujasya ca
gṛhītvā khaṃ gataḥ sadyaḥ
khadaṃś cañcu-puṭena tam
atha—-then; kaścin—a certain; mahān—great; gṛdhraḥ—vulture; māṃsam—the flesh; tasya—of his; bhujasya—arm; ca—and; gṛhītvā—grabbing; kham—to the sky; gataḥ—went; sadyaḥ—at once; khadan—eating; cañcu-puṭena—with its beak; tam—that.
English translation of verse 6.13.26:
With its beak a great vulture suddenly bit off a part of his arm and flew into the sky, devouring it as it went.