Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.7.35, 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:

लक्ष-भार-समां कंसश्
चीक्षेपेन्द्राय दैत्य-राट्
तां समापततीं वीक्ष्य
जग्राहाशु पुरन्दरः

lakṣa-bhāra-samāṃ kaṃsaś
cīkṣependrāya daitya-rāṭ
tāṃ samāpatatīṃ vīkṣya
jagrāhāśu purandaraḥ

lakṣaa hundred thousand; bhārabhāras; samaṃ—like; kaṃsasKaṃsa;

English translation of verse 1.7.35:

cīkṣepa—threw; indrāya—at Indra; daitya-rāṭ—the demon-king; taṃ—that;

samāpatatīṃ—coming; vīkṣya—seeing; jagrāha—took; āśu—at once;

purandaraḥ—Indra.

Then the demon-king Kaṃsa threw that club weighing a hundred thousand bhāras at Indra. Seeing it coming, Indra caught it.

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