Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.3.17, 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 3 (Akrura’s Arrival) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.3.17
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-अक्रूर उवाच
परश्वो ऽहनि हे देव
हन्तुं शौरिं समुद्यतः
खड्ग-पाणिर् भोज-राजो
नारदेन निवारितः
śrī-akrūra uvāca
paraśvo 'hani he deva
hantuṃ śauriṃ samudyataḥ
khaḍga-pāṇir bhoja-rājo
nāradena nivāritaḥ
śrī-akrūra uvāca—Śrī Akrūra said; paraśvo 'hāni—the day after tommorrow; he—O; deva—Lord; hantum—to kill; śaurim—Vasudeva; samudyataḥ—eager; khaḍga-pāṇiḥ—with a sword in hand; bhoja-rājaḥ—Kaṃsa; nāradena—by Nārada; nivāritaḥ—forbidden.
English translation of verse 5.3.17:
Śrī Akrūra said: The day before yesterday Kaṃsa, sword in hand, was about to kill Vasudeva until Nārada Muni stopped him.