Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.24.42, 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:

इत्थं कोलं घातयित्वा
बलदेवो ऽच्युताग्रजः
दत्त्वाथ कौशारवये
कौशाम्बीं च पुरीं ततः

itthaṃ kolaṃ ghātayitvā
baladevo 'cyutāgrajaḥ
dattvātha kauśāravaye
kauśāmbīṃ ca purīṃ tataḥ

ittham—thus; kolamKola; ghātayitvā—killing; baladevaḥLord Balarāma; acyutāgrajaḥ—the elder brother of the infallible Supreme Personality of Godhead; dattvāgiving; athathen; kauśāravaye—to King Kauśāravi; kauśāmbīm—Kauśāravi City; ca—and; purīm—the city; tataḥ—then.

English translation of verse 5.24.42:

Having killed the demon Kola, Lord Balarāma, the elder brother of the infallible Supreme Personality of Godhead, returned Kauśāravi City to King Kauśāravi.

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