Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.8.8, 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 6 of Chapter 8 (The Marriages of All the Queens) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).
Verse 6.8.8
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
र्क्�-रा�-बिलं गत्व�
मणिं हर्तुं स्वय� हरिः
युद्धं कृत्वाष्�-विंशाह�
अजयद� र्क्�-नायकम्
rkṣa-Ჹ-bila� gatvā
maṇi� hartu� svaya� �
yuddha� kṛtvāṣṭa-viṃśāha�
ajayad rkṣa-nāyakam
ṣa�of the rksas; Ჹ�of the king; �to the cave; ٱ�going; ṇi�the jewel; ٳܳ�to take; ⲹ�personally; ��Lord ṛṣṇa; ܻ�fight; ṛt�doing; ṣṭ-ṃśa�twenty-eight; �days; Ჹⲹ�defeated; ṣa-ⲹ첹�the king of the rksas.
English translation of verse 6.8.8:
Entering 峾's cave to recover the jewel, for 28 days Lord ṛṣṇa fought with 峾, the king of the ṛkṣa.