Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 3.2.21, 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 3 of Chapter 2 (The Great Festival of Shri Giriraja) of Canto 3 (giriraja-khanda).

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

कोटि-सूर्य-प्रभं चाद्रेर्
ऊर्ध्वं चक्रं सुदर्शनं
धारा-सम्पातम् अपिबद्
अगस्त्य इव मैथिल

koṭi-sūrya-prabhaṃ cādrer
ūrdhvaṃ cakraṃ sudarśanaṃ
dhārā-sampātam apibad
agastya iva maithila

koṭi-sūrya-prabham—splendid as ten million suns; ca—and; adreḥ—the hill; ūrdhvam—above; cakram—the cakra; sudarśanam—Śudarśana; dhārāstreams; sampātam—falling; apibat—drank; agastyaAgastya Muni; iva—like; maithilaO king of Mithilā.

English translation of verse 3.2.21:

Brilliant as ten million suns, the Sudarśana-cakra hovered above the hill and drank up the falling streams of water as Agastya Muni drank up the ocean.

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