Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.6.12, 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 4 of Chapter 6 (The Story of the Ayodhya Women) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).

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

श्री-दूत उवाच
मथुरायाम् आस्ति शौरिर्
अनपत्यो ऽति-दीनवत्
तत्-पुत्रास् तु पुरा जाताः
कंसेन निहताः श्रुतम्

śrī-dūta uvāca
mathurāyām āsti śaurir
anapatyo 'ti-dīnavat
tat-putrās tu purā jātāḥ
kaṃsena nihatāḥ śrutam

śrī-dūta uvāca—the messenger said; mathurāyām—in Mathurā; āstiis; śauriḥVasudeva; anapatyaḥ—childless; ati-dīnavat—like a very wretched person; tat-putrāḥ—his sons; tu—indeed; purāpreviously; jātāḥ—born; kaṃsena—by Kaṃsa; nihatāḥ—killed; śrutam—heard.

English translation of verse 4.6.12:

The messenger said: Unhappy and childless, Vasudeva stays in Mathurā. I heard that all his sons were killed by Kaṃsa.

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