Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 8.13.84, 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:

कुन्त-धारी त्रिशूली च
बीभत्सी घर्घर-स्वनह्
शूल-सूच्य्-अर्पित-गजो
गज-चर्म-धरो गजी

kunta-dhārī triśūlī ca
bībhatsī gharghara-svanah
śūla-sūcy-arpita-gajo
gaja-carma-dharo gajī

He is Lord Śiva who carries a trident (kunta-dhārī and triśūlī), who is terrifying (bībhatsī), who roars ferociously (gharghara-svana), who with His trident attacked an elephant (śūla-sūcy-arpita-gaja), who wears an elephant-skin garemnt (gaja-carma-dhara), and who rides on an elephant (gajī).

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