Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 1.11.72, 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).
Verse 1.11.72
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-नारद उवाच
इत्थं महोद्भटा दुष्टा
दैतेयाः कंस-नोदिताः
दुद्रुवुः खं गवादिभ्यो
जघ्नुर् जातांस् च बालकान्
śrī-nārada uvāca
itthaṃ mahodbhaṭā duṣṭā
daiteyāḥ kaṃsa-noditāḥ
dudruvuḥ khaṃ gavādibhyo
jaghnur jātāṃs ca bālakān
śrī-nāradaḥ uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; ittham—thus; mahā—great; udbhaṭāḥ—powerful; duṣṭāḥ—wicked; daiteyāḥ—demons; kaṃsa—by Kaṃsa; noditāḥ—sent; dudruvuḥ—ran; kham—to the sky; gava—by the cows; ādibhyaḥ—headed; jaghnuḥ—killed; jātān—born; ca—also; bālakān—infants.
English translation of verse 1.11.72:
Śrī Nārada said: Sent by Kaṃsa, these powerful and sinful demons flew in the sky. They killed many newborn infants and many cows and other pious beings.