Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 8.13.85, 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:

अन्त्र-माली मुण्ड-माली
व्याली दण्डक-मण्डलुह्
वेताल-भृद् भूत-सङ्घह्
कूष्माण्ड-गण-सम्वृतह्

antra-mālī muṇḍa-mālī
vyālī daṇḍaka-maṇḍaluh
vetāla-bhṛd bhūta-saṅghah
kūṣmāṇḍa-gaṇa-samvṛtah

He is Lord Nṛsiṃha who wears a garland of entrails (antra-mālī). He is Lord Śiva who wears a necklace of skulls (muṇḍa-mālī), who is ferocious (vyālī), who carries a club (daṇḍaka-maṇḍalu), who is accompanied by Vetālas (vetāla-bhṛd), who is accompanied by ghosts (bhūta-saṅgha), and who is accompanied by Kūṣmāṇḍas (kūṣmāṇḍa-gaṇa-samvṛta).

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