te tu tūrṇam upavrajya
devakyÄ garbha-janma tat
Äcakhyur bhoja-rÄjÄya
yad udvignaḥ pratīkṣate
te - all the watchmen; tu - indeed; tÅ«rṇam - very quickly; upavrajya - going before (the King); devakyÄḥ - of DevakÄ«; garbha-janma - the deliverance from the womb; tat - that (child); Äcakhyuḥ - submitted; bhoja-rÄjÄya - unto the King of the Bhojas, Kaá¹sa; yat - of whom; udvignaḥ - with great anxiety; pratÄ«ká¹£ate - was waiting (for the child's birth).
Thereafter, all the watchmen very quickly approached King Kaá¹sa, the ruler of the Bhoja dynasty, and submitted the news of the birth of Devakī’s child. Kaá¹sa, who had awaited this news very anxiously, immediately took action.
Kaá¹sa was very anxiously waiting because of the prophecy that the eighth child of DevakÄ« 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.
