Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.24.106, 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:

ततः परिवृतो रामः
स्वां पुरीं सञ्जगाम ह
कोल-रक्षो-वधं कृत्वा
स्नात्वा विष्णु-पदी-जले

tataḥ parivṛto rāmaḥ
svāṃ purīṃ sañjagāma ha
kola-rakṣo-vadhaṃ kṛtvā
snātvā viṣṇu-padī-jale

tataḥthen; parivṛtaḥaccompoanied; rāmaḥLord Balarāma; svām—to His won; purīm—city; sa 24jagāma—went; ha—indeed; kola-rakṣo-vadham—the killing of the demon Kola; kṛtvā—having done; snātvā—bathing; viṣṇu-padī-jale—in the water that had washed Lord Viṣṇu's feet.

English translation of verse 5.24.106:

In this way, after killing the Kola demon, and after bathing in the Gaṅgā, which is a stream that has washed Lord Viṣṇu's feet, Lord Balarāma, accompanied by His associates, returned to His city.

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