Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 8.13.127, 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:

खड्ग-खण्डीत-सर्वाङ्गह्
षोडशाब्दह् षड्-अक्षरह्
वीर-घोषह् क्लिष्ट-वपुर्
वज्राङ्गो वज्र-भेदनह्

khaḍga-khaṇḍīta-sarvāṅgah
ṣoḍaśābdah ṣaḍ-akṣarah
vīra-ghoṣah kliṣṭa-vapur
vajrāṅgo vajra-bhedanah

With His sword He cuts the enemy to pieces (khaḍga-khaṇḍīta-sarvāṅga). He is a sixteen-year-old youth eternally (ṣoḍaśābda). He does not suffer the six material distresses (ṣaḍ-akṣara). He makes a heroic roar (vīra-ghoṣa). He brings distress to His enemies (kliṣṭa-vapu). His limbs are powerful like a series of thunderbolts (vajrāṅga). He breaks apart the thunderbolt weapons of His enemies (vajra-bhedana).

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