Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verses 5.8.36-37, 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 8 (The Killing of Kamsa) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verses 5.8.36-37
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
कंसं प्रपतितं दृष्ट्वा
भ्रातरो ऽष्टौ महा-बलाः सुनाम-सृष्टि-न्यग्रोध-तुष्टिमद्-राष्ट्र-पालकाः
सुहुना कङ्क-शङ्कुभ्यां
क्रोध-प्रस्फुरिताधराः
खड्ग-चर्म-धरा योद्धुं
कृष्णोपरि समाययुः
kaṃsaṃ prapatitaṃ dṛṣṭvā
bhrātaro 'ṣṭau mahā-balāḥ sunāma-sṛṣṭi-nyagrodha-tuṣṭimad-rāṣṭra-pālakāḥ
suhunā kaṅka-śaṅkubhyāṃ
krodha-prasphuritādharāḥ
khaḍga-carma-dharā yoddhuṃ
kṛṣṇopari samāyayuḥ
kaṃsam—Kaṃsa; prapatitam—fallen; dṛṣṭvā—seeing; bhrātaraḥ—brothers; aṣṭau—eight; mahā-balāḥ—very strong; sunāma-sṛṣṭi-nyagrodha-tuṣṭimad-rāṣṭrapālakāḥ—Sunāma, Sṛṣṭi, Nyagrodha, Tuṣṭiman, Rāṣṭra-pālaka; suhunā—with Suhu; kaṅka-śaṅkubhyām—with Kaṅka and Śaṅku; krodha-prasphuritādharāḥ—their lips trembling with rage; khaḍga-carma-dharā—holding swords and shields; yoddhum—to fight; kṛṣṇopari—Kṛṣṇa; samāyayuḥ—approached.
English translation of verses 5.8.36-37:
Seeing that Kaṃsa had fallen, Kaṃsa's eight brothers, Sṛṣṭi, Nyagrodha, Tuṣṭimān, Rāṣṭrapālaka, Suhu, Kaṅka, and Śaṅku, clutching swords and shields, and their lips trembling with rage, rushed Śrī Kṛṣṇa to fight with Him.