Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.14.23, 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 4 of Chapter 14 (The Story of the Jalandharis) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).
Verse 4.14.23
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
बाणान्धकारे सञ्जाते
कंसो नीत्वा महा-गदम्
विवेश कुरु-सेनासु
bāṇāndhakāre sañjāte
kaṃso nītvā mahā-gadam
viveśa kuru-senāsu
वने वैश्वानरो यथा
vane vaiśvānaro yathā
bāṇa—of arrows; andhakāre—blinding darkness; sañjāte—manifested; kaṃsaḥ—Kaṃsa; nītvā—bringing; mahā-gadam—great club; viveśa—entered; kuru-senāsu—the Kuru armies; vane—in the forest; vaiśvānaraḥ—fire; yathā—as.
English translation of verse 4.14.23:
The sky became dark with a great shower of arrows. Then, as a fire enters a forest, so Kaṃsa, armed with a great club, penetrated the Kuru army.