Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.1.12, 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 5 of Chapter 1 (Advice to Kamsa) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

कंस उवाच
हे कूट हे तोशलक
हे चाणूर महा-बल
राम-कृष्णौ च मे मृत्यू
दर्शितौ नारदेन तु

kaṃsa uvāca
he kūṭa he tośalaka
he cāṇūra mahā-bala
rāma-kṛṣṇau ca me mṛtyū
darśitau nāradena tu

kaṃsaKaṃsa; uvāca—said; he—O; kūṭaKuta; he—O; tośalaka—Tosala; he—O; cāṇūraCanura; mahā-balavery powerful; rāmaBalarāma; kṛṣṇau—and Kṛṣṇa; ca—and; me—my; mṛtyū—death; darśitau—revealed; nāradena—by Nārada; tu—indeed.

English translation of verse 5.1.12:

Kaṃsa said: O Kūṭa, O Tośala, O powerful Cāṇūra, Nārada Muni has reveled to me that Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma are destined to kill me.

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