Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.24.54, 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).
Verse 5.24.54
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
विकरालः क्रोड-मुखो
ऽसुरो ऽभवन् महा-खलः
इत्थं स मुनि-शापेन
कोलः क्रोद-मुखो ऽभवत्
vikarālaḥ kroḍa-mukho
'suro 'bhavan mahā-khalaḥ
itthaṃ sa muni-śāpena
kolaḥ kroda-mukho 'bhavat
vikarālaḥ—horrible; kroḍa-mukhaḥ—with the face of a pig; asuraḥ—demon; bhava—become; mahā-khalaḥ—a great demon; ittham—in this way; saḥ—he; muni-śāpena—by the sage's curse; kolaḥ—Kola; kroḍa-mukhaḥ—with the face of a pig; abhavat—became.
English translation of verse 5.24.54:
"Now become a horrible demon with the face of a pig!" By the sage's curse the king became a pig-faced demon named Kola.