Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.6.29, 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 1 of Chapter 6 (Description of Kamsa’s Strength) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

मूर्छितस् तत्-प्रहारेण
परं कष्मलतां ययौ
क्षीण-सत्त्वस् चूर्णितास्थिर्
दास-भावं गतस् तदा

mūrchitas tat-prahāreṇa
paraṃ kaṣmalatāṃ yayau
kṣīṇa-sattvas cūrṇitāsthir
dāsa-bhāvaṃ gatas tadā

mūrchitaḥunconscious; tat-prahāreṇa—by that blow; param—great; kaṣmalatām—depression; yayau—attained; kṣīṇa-sattvaḥweak; cūrṇitacrushed into a powder; asthiḥ—bones; dāsa-bhāvam—the state of a servant; gataḥ—attained; tadāthen.

English translation of verse 1.6.29:

In this way Dvivida was knocked unconscious. Dispirited, weakened, and his bones broken, he became Kaṃsa's servant.

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