Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.7.33, 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:

त्यक्त्वा वज्रं तदा वज्री
खड्गं जग्राह रोषतः
कंसं मूर्ध्नि तटादाशु
नादं कृत्वाथ भैरवम्

tyaktvā vajraṃ tadā vajrī
khaḍgaṃ jagrāha roṣataḥ
kaṃsaṃ mūrdhni taṭādāśu
nādaṃ kṛtvātha bhairavam

tyaktvāabandoning; vajraṃ—the thunderbolt; tadā—then; vajrīIndra;

English translation of verse 1.7.33:

khaḍgaṃ—sword; jagrāha—took; roṣataḥ—angrily; kaṃsaṃKaṃsa; mūrdhni—

on the head; taṭāda—struck; āśu—at once; nādaṃ—a sound; kṛtvā—making;

atha—then; bhairavam—terrible.

Abandoning the thunderbolt, Indra took up a sword and angrily struck Kaṃsa on the head, making a terrible sound.

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