Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verses 5.7.36-37, 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:

मल्लाश् च मल्लं च नरा नरेन्द्रं
स्त्रियः स्मरं गोप-गणा व्रजेशम्
पिता सुतं दण्ड-धरं ह्य् असन्तो
मृत्युं च कंसो विबुधा विराजम्
तत्त्वं परं योगि-वराश् च भोजा
देवं तदा रङ्ग-गतं बलेन
पृथक् पृथग् भावनया ह्य् अपश्यन्
सर्वे जनास् तं परिपूर्ण-देवम्

mallāś ca mallaṃ ca narā narendraṃ
striyaḥ smaraṃ gopa-gaṇā vrajeśam
pitā sutaṃ daṇḍa-dharaṃ hy asanto
mṛtyuṃ ca kaṃso vibudhā virājam
tattvaṃ paraṃ yogi-varāś ca bhojā
devaṃ tadā raṅga-gataṃ balena
pṛthak pṛthag bhāvanayā hy apaśyan
sarve janās taṃ paripūrṇa-devam

mallāḥthe wrestlers; ca—and; mallam—a wrestler; ca—and; narāthe people; narendram—a king; striyaḥthe women; smaram—Kāmadeva; gopa-gaṇāḥthe gopas; vrajeśam—the master of Vraja; pitāHis father; sutam—a son; daṇḍa-dharam—Yamarāja; hy—indeed; asantaḥ—the impious; mṛtyum—death; ca—and; kaṃsaḥKaṃsa; vibudhā—the wise; virājam—a renounced sage; tattvam—the truth; param—supreme; yogi-varāś—the great yogis; ca—and; bhojāthe Bhojas; devam—the Lord; tadāthen; raṅga-gatam—come to the arena; balena—with Balarāma; pṛthak pṛthak—each in their own way; bhāvanayā—with the ideaq; hy—indeed; apaśyansaw; sarve—all; janāḥ—the people; tam—Him; paripūrṇa-devam—the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

English translation of verses 5.7.36-37:

When, accompanied by Balarāma, Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, entered the arena, the people saw Him in different ways. The wrestlers saw Him as a wrestler, the people in general saw Him as a great king, the women saw Him as Kāmadeva, the gopas saw Him as the master of Vraja, King Nanda saw Him as his son, the impious saw Him as Yamarāja, Kaṃsa saw Him as death personified, the wise saw Him as a great renounced sage, the yogīs saw Him as the Supreme Truth, and the members of the Bhoja dynasty saw Him as their Lord.

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