Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.15.30, 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 15 (Revelation of the Universal Form to Nanda’s Wife) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

विसर्गौ च तथा ह्य् एतौ
नर-नारायणाव् ऋषी
सम्प्रलीनाश् च षट् पूर्णा
यस्मिन् च्छुद्धे महात्मनि

visargau ca tathā hy etau
nara-nārāyaṇāv ṛṣī
sampralīnāś ca ṣaṭ pūrṇā
yasmin cchuddhe mahātmani

visargau—the letter ḥ; ca—also; tathā—so; hi—indeed; etau—They; nara-nārāyaṇau—Nara-Nārāyaṇa Ṛṣis; sampralīnāḥ—entered; ca—also; ṣaṭ—six; pūrṇāḥ—full; yasminin whom; śuddhe—pure; mahātmani—Supreme Person.

English translation of verse 1.15.30:

The letter Ḥ stands for Nara-Nārāyaṇa Ṛṣi. In this way these six letters combine to become the name of the pure Supreme Person.

Note: In the Sanskrit alphabet the letter Ḥ is represented by two dots. An example follows in parenthesis (:). The two dots stand for the two sages Nara-

Nārāyaṇa.

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