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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 10, Ch. 4]
te —all the watchmen;  tu —indeed;  tūrṇam —very quickly;  upavrajya —going before (the King);  devakyāḥ —of Devakī;  garbhajanma —the deliverance from the womb;  tat —that (child);  ācakhyuḥ —submitted;  bhoja-rājāya —unto the King of the Bhojas, Kaṁsa;  yat —of whom;  udvignaḥ —with great anxiety;  pratikṣate —was waiting (for the child's birth).
TRANSLATION
Thereafter, all the watchmen very quickly approached King Kaṁsa, the ruler of the Bhoja dynasty, and submitted the news of the birth of Devakī's child. Kaṁsa, who had awaited this news very anxiously, immediately took action.
PURPORT
Kaṁsa was very anxiously waiting because of the prophecy that the eighth child of Devakī would kill him. This time, naturally, he was awake and waiting, and when the watchmen approached him, he immediately took action to kill the child.
TEXT 3
स तल्पात् तूर्णमुत्थाय कालोऽयमिति विह्वलः। स्वतीग्रहमगात् तूर्णं प्रस्वलन् मुक्तमूर्धजः ॥ ३ ॥
sa talpāt tūrṇam utthāya kālo 'yam iti vihvalaḥ sūtī-gṛham agāt tūrṇaṁ praskhalan mukta-mūrdhajaḥ
saḥ —he (King Kaṁsa);  talpāt —from the bed;  tūrṇam —very quickly;  utthāya —getting up;  kālaḥ ayam —here is my death, the supreme time;  iti —in this way;  vihvalaḥ —overwhelmed;  sūtī-gṛham —to the maternity home;  agāt —went;  tūrṇam —without delay;  praskhalan —scattering;  mukta —had become opened;  mūrdha-jaḥ —the hair on the head.
TRANSLATION
Kaṁsa immediately got up from bed, thinking, “Here is Kāla, the supreme time factor, which has taken birth to kill me!” Thus