Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.2.1, 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:

श्री-नारद उवाच
अतः केशी महा-दैत्यो
हय-रूपि मदोत्कटः
एत्य वृन्दावनं रम्यं
जगर्ज घनवद् बली

śrī-nārada uvāca
ataḥ keśī mahā-daityo
haya-rūpi madotkaṭaḥ
etya vṛndāvanaṃ ramyaṃ
jagarja ghanavad balī

śrī-nārada uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; ataḥ—then; keśīKesi; mahā-daityaḥthe great demon; haya-rūpiin the form of a horse; madotkaṭaḥ—wild; etyagoing; vṛndāvanam—to Vṛndāvana; ramyam—beautiful; jagarja—neighed; ghanavat—like a cloud; balīpowerful.

English translation of verse 5.2.1:

Śrī Nārada said: Then the powerful and ferocious demon Keśī assumed the form of a wild horse. Neighing like thunder, he entered beautiful Vṛndāvana.

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