Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.1.18, 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 1 (Description of Shri-Krishna’s Glories) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

पूर्णो नृसिंहो रामश् च
श्वेतद्वीपाधिपो हरिः
वैकुण्ठो ऽपि तथा यज्ञो
नर-नारायणः स्मृतः

pūrṇo nṛsiṃho rāmaś ca
śvetadvīpādhipo hariḥ
vaikuṇṭho 'pi tathā yajño
nara-nārāyaṇaḥ smṛtaḥ

pūrṇaḥfull; nṛsiṃhaḥNṛsiṃha; rāmaḥRāma; ca—and; śvetadvīpādhipaḥ—the ruler of Śvetadvīpa; hariḥHari; vaikuṇṭhaḥVaikuṇṭha; api—also; tathā—then; yajñaḥYajña; nara-nārāyaṇaḥNara-Nārāyaṇa; smṛtaḥ—decsribed in the Smṛti.

English translation of verse 1.1.18:

The Smṛti-śāstra explains that the pūrṇa incarnations are 1. Nṛsiṃha, 2. Rāma,

3. Lord Hari, the ruler of Śvetadvīpa, 4. Vaikuṇṭha, 5. Yajña, and 6. Nara-

Nārāyaṇa.

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