Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.8.35, 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:

हा-हा-कारस् तदैवासीद्
धावतां भुभुजां नृप
वैर-भावेन देवेशं
भजन् कंसो महा-बलः
जगाम तस्य सारूप्यं
भृङ्गिनः कीटको यथा

hā-hā-kāras tadaivāsīd
dhāvatāṃ bhubhujāṃ nṛpa
vaira-bhāvena deveśaṃ
bhajan kaṃso mahā-balaḥ
jagāma tasya sārūpyaṃ
bhṛṅginaḥ kīṭako yathā

hā-hā-kāraḥthe sound ofAlas! Alas!; tadāthen; eva—indeed; āsīt—was; dhāvatām—running; bhubhujām—of the kings; nṛpaO king; vaira-bhāvena—with enmity; deveśam—the Supreme Personality of Godhead; bhajanworshiping; kaṃsaḥKaṃsa; mahā-balaḥvery strong; jagāma—went; tasya—of Him; sārūpyam—the same form; bhṛṅginaḥ—of a bee; kīṭakaḥa kitaka insect; yathā—as.

English translation of verse 5.8.35:

O king, the many kings ran here and there, exclaiming, Alas! Alas!" Then because in the rasa of hatred he had worshiped Lord Kṛṣṇa, the master of the demigods, Kaṃsa attained a spiritual form resembling the Lord's, as a kiṭaka insect attains the form of it's enemy, the bee.

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