Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.15.26, 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 6 of Chapter 15 (The Glories of Nriga-kupa and Gopi-bhumi) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).

Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:

एकदा राज्य-लोभेन
मन्त्री क्रुद्धो महा-खलम्
जघानारण्य-देशे तं
तीक्ष्न-धारेण चासिना

ekadā rājya-lobhena
mantrī kruddho mahā-khalam
jaghānāraṇya-deśe taṃ
tīkṣna-dhāreṇa cāsinā

ekadāone day; rājyafor a kingdom; lobhena—with greed; mantrīminister; kruddhaḥ—angry; mahā-khalam—wicked; jaghāna—killed; āraṇya-deśe—in the forest; tam—him; tīkṣna-dhāreṇa—with a sharp; ca—and; asinā—sword.

English translation of verse 6.15.26:

One day, greedy to get his kingdom, with a sharp sword his angry minister killed him in the forest.

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