Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.2.22, 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 5 of Chapter 2 (The Killing of Keshi) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

हयाकृतिस् ते सम्भूयाद्
भूमौ मन्वन्तर-द्वयम्
तच्-छापाद् अद्य मुक्तो ऽहं
सद्यस् त्वत्-स्पर्शनात् प्रभो

hayākṛtis te sambhūyād
bhūmau manvantara-dvayam
tac-chāpād adya mukto 'haṃ
sadyas tvat-sparśanāt prabho

hayākṛtiḥ—the form of a horse; te—of you; sambhūyāt—will be; bhūmau—on the earthj; manvantara-dvayam—for two manvantaras; tac-chāpāt—from that curse; adyatoday; muktaḥ—freed; aham—I am; sadyaḥ—at once; tvat-sparśanāt—by Your touch; prabhaḥ—O Lord.

English translation of verse 5.2.22:

"For two manvantaras you will have a horse's form on the earth." O Lord, today Your touch has freed me from that curse.

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