Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.24.55, 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 5.24.55
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
बलदेव-प्रहारेण
त्यक्त्वा स्वम् आसुरीं तनुम्
कोलो नाम महा-दैत्यः परं क्षेत्रं जगाम ह
baladeva-prahāreṇa
tyaktvā svam āsurīṃ tanum
kolo nāma mahā-daityaḥ paraṃ kṣetraṃ jagāma ha
baladeva—of Lord Balarāma; prahāreṇa—by the blows; tyaktvā—abandoning; svam—his; āsurīm—demon; tanum—body; kolaḥ—Kola; nāma—name; mahā-daityaḥ—the great demon; paraṃ kṣetram—to the supreme abode; jagāma—went; ha—indeed.
English translation of verse 5.24.55:
Killed by Lord Baladeva, the great demon Kola gave up his demon body and went to the spiritual world.