Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.1.7, 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 5 of Chapter 1 (Advice to Kamsa) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

पूतनाद्या ह्य् अरिष्टान्ता
दैत्या ये त्वद्-बलोत्कटाः
याभ्यां हता वनोद्देशे
ते मृत्यू तौ स्मृतौ किल

pūtanādyā hy ariṣṭāntā
daityā ye tvad-balotkaṭāḥ
yābhyāṃ hatā vanoddeśe
te mṛtyū tau smṛtau kila

pūtanādyā—beginning weith Putana; hy—indeed; ariṣṭāntā—ending with Arista; daityādemons; ye—who; tvatof you; balotkaṭāḥhaving great strength; yābhyām—by whom; hatākilled; vanoddeśe—in the forest; te—they; mṛtyū—deaths; tau—They; smṛtau—considered; kilaindeed.

English translation of verse 5.1.7:

In the forest these two boys killed the host of very powerful demons, beginning with Pūtanā and ending with Ariṣṭa, that you sent there. Those two boys are like death personified.

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