Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.20.15, 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 20 (The Killing of Pralamba) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).
Verse 4.20.15
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्रि-बहुलाच्व उवाच को ऽयम् दैत्यः पुर्व-काले प्रलम्बो रन-दुर्मदः
śri-bahulācva uvāca ko 'yam daityaḥ purva-kāle pralambo rana-durmadaḥ
baladevasya hastena muktim prāpa katham mune śri-bahulācva uvāca—Sri Bahulācva said; kaḥ—who?; ayam—this; daityaḥ—demon; purva-kāle—in previous time; pralambaḥ—Pralamba; rana-durmadaḥ—ferocious; baladevasya—pf Lord Balarāma; hastena—by the fist; muktim—liberation; prāpa—qattained; katham—how?; mune—O sage.
English translation of verse 4.20.15:
Sri Bahulācva said: O sage, who was the ferocious demon Pralamba in his previous birth that he was able to attain liberation by Lord Balarāma's hand?