Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 8.13.43, 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:

मागधारिर् यवन-हा
पाण्डु-पुत्र-सहाय-कृत्
चतुर्-भुजह् श्यामलाङ्गह्
सौम्यश् चौपगवि-प्रियह्

māgadhārir yavana-hā
pāṇḍu-putra-sahāya-kṛt
catur-bhujah śyāmalāṅgah
saumyaś caupagavi-priyah

He is the enemy of Jarāsandha (māgadhāri), the killer of Kālayavana (yavana-hā), the ally of the Pāṇḍavas (pāṇḍu-putra-sahāya-kṛt), four-armed Lord Nārāyaṇa (catur-bhuja), dark-complexioned Lord Kṛṣṇa (śyāmalāṅga), gentle (saumya), and dear to Aupagavi (aupagavi-priya).

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