Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.11.74, 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).

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

उत्पथा उद्भटा दैत्यास्
तत्रापि कंस-नोदिताः
कपिः सुरापो ऽलि-हतो
भूत-ग्रस्त इवाभवन्

utpathā udbhaṭā daityās
tatrāpi kaṃsa-noditāḥ
kapiḥ surāpo 'li-hato
bhūta-grasta ivābhavan

utpathāḥ—left the path; udbhaṭāḥ—great; daityāḥdemons; tatra—there; api—also; kaṃsa-noditāḥ—sent by Kaṃsa; kapiḥa monkey; surāpaḥa drunkard; ali—by drink; hataḥ—destroyed; bhūtaby a ghost; grastaḥ—haunted; iva—like; abhavan—became.

English translation of verse 1.11.74:

The great demons sent by Kaṃsa were far from the path (of religion). They were like a monkey, or a drunkard destroyed by drink, or a man possessed by a ghost.

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