Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.2.12, 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 5 of Chapter 2 (The Killing of Keshi) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

मस्तकेन गलोद्देशे
समुधृत्य हरिं हयः
भू-मण्डलाद् उत्पपात
गगने लक्ष-योजनम्

mastakena galoddeśe
samudhṛtya hariṃ hayaḥ
bhū-maṇḍalād utpapāta
gagane lakṣa-yojanam

mastakena—by the head; galoddeśe—on the neck; samudhṛtya—grabbing; harim—Lord Kṛṣṇa; hayaḥthe horse; bhū-maṇḍalāt—from the earth; utpapāta—threw; gagane—into the sky; lakṣa-yojanam—800,000 miles.

English translation of verse 5.2.12:

Then, grabbing His neck, the demon-horse pulled Lord Kṛṣṇa eight hundred thousand miles into the sky.

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