Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.14.33, 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 14 (The Glories of Ratnakara, Raivata, and Kacala) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).

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

हिमवन्तं बहु-वेगात्
पातयित्वा मही-तले
ममर्द पद्भ्यां चान्यांश् च
विन्ध्यादीन् रण-दुर्मदः

himavantaṃ bahu-vegāt
pātayitvā mahī-tale
mamarda padbhyāṃ cānyāṃś ca
vindhyādīn raṇa-durmadaḥ

himavantam—Mount Himālaya; bahu-vegāt—with great force; pātayitvā— throwing; mahī-tale—to the ground; mamarda—crushed; padbhyām—with both feet; ca—and; anyān—the others; ca—and; vindhyādīn—headed by the Vindhyā mountains; raṇain the battle; durmadaḥ—wild with passion.

English translation of verse 6.14.33:

Wildly passionate in the fight, King Raivata violently threw Mount Himālaya to the ground. With his feet he crushed Mount Vindhyā and the other mountains.

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