Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.8.47, 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:

ताडयन्त्य उरो हस्तैर्
अस्ति-प्राप्त्य्-आदयः स्त्रियः
विनिर्गतस् त रुरुदुर्
जात-वैधव्य-दुःखिताः

tāḍayantya uro hastair
asti-prāpty-ādayaḥ striyaḥ
vinirgatas ta rurudur
jāta-vaidhavya-duḥkhitāḥ

tāḍayantyaḥ—beating; uraḥ—their chests; hastaiḥ—with their hands; asti-prāpty-ādayaḥ—headed by Asti and Prapti; striyaḥthe women; vinirgataḥcame out; ta—they; ruruduḥ—cried; jāta-vaidhavya-duḥkhitāḥfilled with grief.

English translation of verse 5.8.47:

Kaṃsa's wives, headed by Asti and Prāpti, beat their chests and wailed with grief.

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