Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.24.7, 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:

श्री-प्रजा ऊचुः
राम राम महा-बाहो
देव-देव महा-बल
कोलेन पीडिताः सर्वे
आगताः शरणं वयम्

śrī-prajā ūcuḥ
rāma rāma mahā-bāho
deva-deva mahā-bala
kolena pīḍitāḥ sarve
āgatāḥ śaraṇaṃ vayam

śrī-prajā ūcuḥ—the people said; rāmaO Balarāma; rāma—OBalarāma; mahā-bāhaḥO mighty-armed; deva-devaO Lord of lords; mahā-balaO powerful one; kolena—by Kola; pīḍitāḥ—distressed; sarve—all; āgatāḥ—come; śaraṇam—to the shelter; vayam—we.

English translation of verse 5.24.7:

The people said: Balarāma! Balarāma! Mighty-armed one! Master of the demigods! Powerful one! We are all harassed by a demon named Kola. We take shalter of You.

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