Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.7.20, 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 7 (Description of the Conquest of All Directions) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

कंसः कालं सङ्गृहीत्वा
पातयाम् आस भू-तले
पुनर् गृहीत्वा निष्पत्य
मृत-तुल्यं चकार ह

kaṃsaḥ kālaṃ saṅgṛhītvā
pātayām āsa bhū-tale
punar gṛhītvā niṣpatya
mṛta-tulyaṃ cakāra ha

kaṃsaḥKaṃsa; kālaṃKālayavana; saṅgṛhītvā—grabbing; pātayām āsa—

English translation of verse 1.7.20:

threw; bhū-tale—on the ground; punar—again; gṛhītvā—grabbing; niṣpatya—fell;

mṛta—death; tulyaṃ—like; cakāra—made; ha—indeed.

Kaṃsa grabbed Kālayavana, threw him to the gound, jumped on him, and attacked him so violently he almost died.

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