Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.5.22, 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 2 of Chapter 5 (The Liberation of Bakasura) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:

तदैव कृष्णस् तन्-मध्ये
ततान वपुर् उज्ज्वलम्
चच्छर्द कृष्णं सहसा
क्षत-कण्ठो महा-बकः

tadaiva kṛṣṇas tan-madhye
tatāna vapur ujjvalam
caccharda kṛṣṇaṃ sahasā
kṣata-kaṇṭho mahā-bakaḥ

tadāthen; eva—indeed; kṛṣṇaḥKṛṣṇa; tan-madhye—in the midst of the demon; tatāna—expanded; vapuḥ—form; ujjvalam—glorious; caccharda—vomited; kṛṣṇam—Kṛṣṇa; sahasāat once; kṣatabroken; kaṇṭhaḥ—throast; mahāthe great; bakaḥ—duck.

English translation of verse 2.5.22:

Then, from inside the duck Kṛṣṇa expanded His glorious form. His throat broken, the great duck at once vomited Kṛṣṇa out.

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