Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.24.60, 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 5.24.60
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
तपस् तप्तं महत् तेन
चान्ते देव-कृपाप्तये
तद्-अर्थं स्व-समाजेन
बलदेवो जगाम ह
tapas taptaṃ mahat tena
cānte deva-kṛpāptaye
tad-arthaṃ sva-samājena
baladevo jagāma ha
tapas taptam—performed austerities;; mahat—great; tena—by Him; ca—and; ante—in the end; deva—of the Diety; kṛpā—mercy; āptaye—to attain; tad-artham—for that purpose; sva-samājena—with His group; baladevaḥ—Balarāma; jagāma—went; ha—indeed.
English translation of verse 5.24.60:
Māṇḍūkadeva had performed great austerities to attain the mercy of the Lord.
That is the reason Lord Balarāma went there with His associates.