Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.8.49, 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:

जात-मात्रः स्वसुः पुत्रा
निर्घृणेन त्वया हताः
अनिर्दशा निर्दशश् चा-
परे ऽपि निहता बलात्

jāta-mātraḥ svasuḥ putrā
nirghṛṇena tvayā hatāḥ
anirdaśā nirdaśaś cā-
pare 'pi nihatā balāt

jāta-mātraḥas soon as they were born; svasuḥ—of your sister; putrā—the sons; nirghṛṇena—without mercy; tvayā—by you; hatāḥkilled; anirdaśā—not more than ten days old; nirdaśaḥ—ten days old; ca—and; apare—others; api—also; nihatā—killed; balāt—forcibly.

English translation of verse 5.8.49:

You mercilessly killed your sisters sons when they were ten days old. Some were not even ten days old. Some you killed the moment they were born.

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