Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.24.4, 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 24 (The Killing of the Kola Demon) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:

कोलेन पीडिता लोकाः
कौशारवि-पुरान् नृप
मथुराम् आययुः सर्वे
स-द्विजा दीन-मानसाः

kolena pīḍitā lokāḥ
kauśāravi-purān nṛpa
mathurām āyayuḥ sarve
sa-dvijā dīna-mānasāḥ

kolena—By Kola; pīḍitā—tormented; lokāḥ—the people; kauśāravi-purāt—from Kausaravi-pura; nṛpaO king; mathurām—to Mathurā; āyayuḥ—came; sarve—all; sa-dvijāwith brāhmaṇas; dīna-mānasāḥ—troubled at heart.

English translation of verse 5.24.4:

Harassed by a demon named Kola, all the people of Kauśāravi-pura fled to Mathurā City.

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