Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.6.35, 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 1 of Chapter 6 (Description of Kamsa’s Strength) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

अद्यैव त्वां हन्मि दुष्ट-
क्षत्रियं वीर-मानिनम्
मत्-समीपे धनुर् इदं
लक्ष-भार-समं महत्

adyaiva tvāṃ hanmi duṣṭa-
kṣatriyaṃ vīra-māninam
mat-samīpe dhanur idaṃ
lakṣa-bhāra-samaṃ mahat

adyatoday; eva—indeed; tvām—you; hanmi—I will kill; duṣṭawicked; kṣatriyam—kṣatriya; vīrastrong; māninam—thinking yourself; mat-samīpe—near Me; dhanuḥ—bow; idam—this; lakṣa-bhāra-samamas heavy as a hundred thousand bhāras; mahatgreat.

English translation of verse 1.6.35:

Today I will kill you, who are a wicked kṣatriya falsely proud of his strength.

This great bow by My side weighs a hundred thousand bhāras.

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