Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.11.33, 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 11 (Description of Shri Krishnacandra’s Birth) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

भू-भारोद्भट-हरणार्थम् एव
जातो गो-देव-द्विज-निज-वत्स-पालको ऽसि
गेहे मे भुवि पुरुषोत्तमोत्तमस् त्वं
कंसान् मां भुवन-पते प्रपाहि पापात्

bhū-bhārodbhaṭa-haraṇārtham eva
jāto go-deva-dvija-nija-vatsa-pālako 'si
gehe me bhuvi puruṣottamottamas tvaṃ
kaṃsān māṃ bhuvana-pate prapāhi pāpāt

bhū—of the earth; bhāraburden; udbhaṭasoldiers; haraṇaremoval; arthamfor the purpose; eva—indeed; jātaḥborn; gaḥ—of the cows; devademigods; dvijabrāhmaṇas; nijaown; vatsachildren; pālakaḥprotector; asi—are; gehe—in the home; me—my; bhuvi—on the earth; puruṣa-uttama-uttamaḥO most exalted of exalted persons; tvam—You; kaṃsāt—from Kaṃsa; mām—me; bhuvana-pateO master of the worlds; prapāhi—please protect; pāpāt—sinful.

English translation of verse 1.11.33:

You are the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, the protector of the cows, demigods, brāhmaṇas, and Your own children, who has taken birth in my home on earth in order to remove the great armies that now burden the earth. O master of the worlds, please protect me from sinful Kaṃsa.

Note: The "children" here are the Vaiṣṇavas.

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