Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.12.3, 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 12 (Pancajana’s Previous Birth) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.12.3
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
हित्व विद्यम् चध्ययनम् जपम् तेन सहैव ते गत्व बलेर् मल्ल-युद्धम् सदचिक्सन् मदोद्धतह्
hitva vidyam cadhyayanam japam tena sahaiva te gatva baler malla-yuddham sadaciksan madoddhatah
hitva—abandoning; vidyam—knowledge; ca—and; adhyayanam—study; japam—chanting; tena—by him; saha—with; eva—indeed; te—they; gatva—going; baleh—of Bali; malla-yuddham—wrestling; sada—always; aciksan—- studied; madoddhatah—wild.
English translation of verse 5.12.3:
Abandoning their studies and mantra-chanting, these wild sons went to King Bali's wrestling camp and studied wrestling daily.