Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.5.24, 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).
Verse 2.5.24
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
पुनर् उत्थाय तुण्डं स्वं
प्रसर्य्यावस्थितं बकम्
ददार तुण्डे हस्ताभ्यां
कृष्णः शाखां गजो यथा
punar utthāya tuṇḍaṃ svaṃ
prasaryyāvasthitaṃ bakam
dadāra tuṇḍe hastābhyāṃ
kṛṣṇaḥ śākhāṃ gajo yathā
punaḥ—again; utthāya—rising; tuṇḍam—beak; svam—own; prasaryya—opening; avasthitam—situated; bakam—duck; dadāra—split; tuṇḍe—in the beak; hastābhyām—with both hands; kṛṣṇaḥ—Kṛṣṇa; śākhām—a tree-branch; gajaḥ—an elephant; yathā—as.
English translation of verse 2.5.24:
The duck stood up again and opened his beak. With both hands Kṛṣṇa split the duck's beak as an elephant breaks a tree-branch.