Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.8.19, 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:

कंस उवाच
दुर्बुद्धि-युक्तौ वसुदेव-नन्दनौ
प्रसह्य निःसारयताशु मत्-पुरात्
हरन्तु सर्वं व्रज-वासिनां धनं
बध्नीत नन्दं सहसाति-दुर्मतिम्

kaṃsa uvāca
durbuddhi-yuktau vasudeva-nandanau
prasahya niḥsārayatāśu mat-purāt
harantu sarvaṃ vraja-vāsināṃ dhanaṃ
badhnīta nandaṃ sahasāti-durmatim

kaṃsa uvāca—Kaṃsa said; durbuddhi-yuktau—unintelligent; vasudeva-nandanau—the two sons of Vasudeva; prasahya—forcibly; niḥsārayata—throw out; āśu—at once; mat-purāt—from my city; harantu—should take; sarvam—all; vraja-vāsinām—of the people of Vraja; dhanam—the wealth; badhnīta—bind; nandam—Nanda; sahasā-at once; ati-durmatim—wicked-hearted Kaṃsa said: I order that the two fools that are Vasudeva's sons should at once be thrown out of my city. The wealth of Vraja's people should be plundered.

English translation of verse 5.8.19:

Wicked-hearted Nanda should be bound and imprisoned.

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