Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.7.2, 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 7 (The Killing of Kuvalayapida) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

तत्-क्षणाद् दुर्-निमित्तानि
वामाङ्ग-स्फुरणानि च
प्रपश्यन्न् अङ्ग-भङ्गानि
न निद्रां प्राप दैत्य-राट्

tat-kṣaṇād dur-nimittāni
vāmāṅga-sphuraṇāni ca
prapaśyann aṅga-bhaṅgāni
na nidrāṃ prāpa daitya-rāṭ

tat-kṣaṇāt—from that moment; dur-nimittāni—evil omens; vāmāṅga-sphuraṇāni—trembling on the left side of his body; ca—and; prapaśyann—seeing; aṅga-bhaṅgāni—the breaking of the body; na—not; nidrām—sleep; prāpaattained; daitya-rāṭ—the demon king.

English translation of verse 5.7.2:

From that moment Kaṃsa saw many evil omens. The left side of his body trembled. In dreams he saw his limbs broken. Then he could not sleep.

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