Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.15.25, 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 15 (The Glories of Nriga-kupa and Gopi-bhumi) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).

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

मृगयायां तु बाणौघैः
कपिला-गो-वधः कृतः
सैन्धवं हयम् आरुह्य
मृगयार्थी गतो ऽभवत्

mṛgayāyāṃ tu bāṇaughaiḥ
kapilā-go-vadhaḥ kṛtaḥ
saindhavaṃ hayam āruhya
mṛgayārthī gato 'bhavat

mṛgayāyām—in hunting; tu—indeed; bāṇaughaiḥ—with many arrows; kapilā-go-vadhaḥkilling a brown cow; kṛtaḥ—done; saindhavam—a sindhu; hayam—horse; āruhya—mounting; mṛgayārthī—wishing to hunt; gataḥ—went; abhavat—did.

English translation of verse 6.15.25:

One day he mounted a sindhu horse and went hunting. With a flood of arrows he accidentally killed with a brown cow in that hunt.

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