कंस: पापमति: सख्यं तव चानकदुन्दुभे: । देवक्या अष्टमो गर्भो न स्त्री भवितुमर्हति ॥ ८ ॥ इति सञ्चिन्तयञ्छ्रुत्वा देवक्या दारिकावच: । अपि हन्ता गताशङ्कस्तर्हि तन्नोऽनयो भवेत् ॥ ९ ॥
kaṁsaḥ pāpa-matiḥ sakhyaṁ tava cānakadundubheḥ devakyā aṣṭamo garbho na strī bhavitum arhati iti sañcintayañ chrutvā devakyā dārikā-vacaḥ api hantā gatāśaṅkas tarhi tan no ’nayo bhavet
- kaṁsaḥ
- King Kaṁsa
- pāpa-matiḥ
- very, very sinful, having a polluted mind
- sakhyam
- friendship
- tava
- your
- ca
- also
- ānaka-dundubheḥ
- of Vasudeva
- devakyāḥ
- of Devakī
- aṣṭamaḥ garbhaḥ
- the eighth pregnancy
- na
- not
- strī
- a woman
- bhavitum arhati
- is possible to be
- iti
- in this way
- sañcintayan
- considering
- śrutvā
- and hearing (this news)
- devakyāḥ
- of Devakī
- dārikā-vacaḥ
- the message from the daughter
- api
- although there was
- hantā gata-āśaṅkaḥ
- there is a possibility that Kaṁsa would take steps to kill this child
- tarhi
- therefore
- tat
- that incident
- naḥ
- for us
- anayaḥ bhavet
- may not be very good
Kaṁsa is both a great diplomat and a very sinful man. Therefore, having heard from Yoga-māyā, the daughter of Devakī, that the child who will kill him has already been born somewhere else, having heard that the eighth pregnancy of Devakī could not bring forth a female child, and having understood your friendship with Vasudeva, Kaṁsa, upon hearing that the purificatory process has been performed by me, the priest of the Yadu dynasty, may certainly consider all these points and suspect that Kṛṣṇa is the son of Devakī and Vasudeva. Then he might take steps to kill Kṛṣṇa. That would be a catastrophe.