Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 8.13.125, 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:

मदोत्कटो युद्ध-वीरो
देवासुर-भयङ्करह्
करि-कर्ण-मरुत्-प्रेजत्-
कुन्तल-व्याप्त-कुण्डलह्

madotkaṭo yuddha-vīro
devāsura-bhayaṅkarah
kari-karṇa-marut-prejat-
kuntala-vyāpta-kuṇḍalah

He is a ferocious warrior (madotkaṭa), a hero in battle (yuddha-vīra), and frightening even to the demigods and demons (devāsura-bhayaṅkara). Moving in the wind, His long hair and earrings are like a great elephant's ear (kari-karṇa-marut-prejat-kuntala-vyāpta-kuṇḍala).

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