Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 3.4.3, 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 3 of Chapter 4 (The Coronation-Bathing of Shri Krishna) of Canto 3 (giriraja-khanda).
Verse 3.4.3
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
दशावतारो भगवांस् त्वम् एव
रिरक्षया धर्म-गवां श्रुतेश् च
अद्यैव जातः परिपूर्ण-देवः
कंसादि-दैत्येन्द्र-विनाशनाय
daśāvatāro bhagavāṃs tvam eva
rirakṣayā dharma-gavāṃ śruteś ca
adyaiva jātaḥ paripūrṇa-devaḥ
kaṃsādi-daityendra-vināśanāya
daśa—ten; avatāraḥ—incarnations; bhagavāṃḥ—Lord; tvam—You; eva—indeed; rirakṣayā—with a desire to protect; dharma-gavām—the cow of religion; śruteḥ—the Vedas; ca—and; adya—today; eva—indeed; jātaḥ—born; paripūrṇa-devaḥ—the Supreme Personality of Godhead; kaṃsādi—headed by Kaṃsa; daityendra——the kings of the demons; vināśanāya—to destroy.
English translation of verse 3.4.3:
You are the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, perfect and complete, who descends as the ten avatāras. Desiring to protect the Vedic scriptures and the cows of piety, and desiring also to kill the demons headed by Kaṃsa, You have taken birth in this world.