Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.8.1, 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 8 (The Killing of Kamsa) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

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

श्री-नारद उवाच
अर्द्र-चित्तं नन्द-राजं
वनितानां मनोरथम्
स्मृत्वा शत्रून् हन्तु-कामस्
चक्रे युद्धं बलाद् धरिः

śrī-nārada uvāca
ardra-cittaṃ nanda-rājaṃ
vanitānāṃ manoratham
smṛtvā śatrūn hantu-kāmas
cakre yuddhaṃ balād dhariḥ

śrī-nārada uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; ardra-cittam—melting hearts; nanda-rājam—King Nanda; vanitānām—of the women; manoratham—the desire; smṛtvā—remembering; śatrūn—the enemies; hantu-kāmaḥ—wishing to kill; cakre—did; yuddham—the fight; balāt—powerfully; hariḥ—Lord Kṛṣṇa.

English translation of verse 5.8.1:

Śrī Nārada said: Thinking of how King Nanda's heart was melting and how the women were praying in this way, Lord Kṛṣṇa, yearning to kill them, ferociously attacked His opponents.

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