Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 8.13.29, 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 8 of Chapter 13 (A Thousand Names of Lord Balarama) of Canto 8 (balabhadra-khanda).

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

बद्ध-गोधाङ्गुलि-त्राणह्
शम्भु-कोदण्ड-भञ्जनह्
यज्ञ-त्राता यज्ञ-भर्ता
मारीच-वध-कारकह्

baddha-godhāṅguli-trāṇah
śambhu-kodaṇḍa-bhañjanah
yajña-trātā yajña-bhartā
mārīca-vadha-kārakah

He wears the shoulder and finger armor of a bowman (baddha-godhāṅguli-traṇa). He broke Lord Śiva's bow (śambhu-kodaṇḍa-bhañjana). He protected the yajña (yajña-trātā and yajña-bhartā). He killed Marīca (mārīca-vadha-kāraka).

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