Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 2.5.30, 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 2 of Chapter 5 (The Liberation of Bakasura) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).

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

श्री-नारद उवाच
हयग्रीव-सुतो दैत्य
उत्कलो नाम हे नृप
रणे ऽमरान् विनिर्जित्य
शक्र-च्छत्रं जहार ह

śrī-nārada uvāca
hayagrīva-suto daitya
utkalo nāma he nṛpa
raṇe 'marān vinirjitya
śakra-cchatraṃ jahāra ha

śrī-nārada uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; hayagrīva-sutaḥthe son of hayagrīva; daityaa demon; utkalaḥUtkala; nāmanamed; he—O; nṛpaking; raṇe—in battle; amarān—the demigods; vinirjitya—defeating; śakraof Indra; chatram—the parasol; jahāra—stole; ha—certainly.

English translation of verse 2.5.30:

Śrī Nārada said: O king, he was a demon named Utkala, who was Hayagrīva's son. He defeated many demigods in battle and he stole Indra's parasol.

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