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).
Verse 4.6.12
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; āsti—is; śauriḥ—Vasudeva; anapatyaḥ—childless; ati-dīnavat—like a very wretched person; tat-putrāḥ—his sons; tu—indeed; purā—previously; 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.