Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 1.4.15, 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 4 (Description of Questions About the Lord’s Appearance) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).
Verse 1.4.15
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
एत ह्य् अष्ट-सखीनां३ च
सखीनां किल षोडश
द्वत्रिंशच् च सखीनां तु
यूथा भाव्या व्रजे विधे
eta hy aṣṭa-sakhīnāṃ3 ca
sakhīnāṃ kila ṣoḍaśa
dvatriṃśac ca sakhīnāṃ tu
yūthā bhāvyā vraje vidhe
etāḥ—they; hi—indeed; aṣṭa—eight; sakhīnāṃ—of friends; ca—also; sakhīnām—of friends; kila—certainly; ṣoḍaśa—sixteen; dvatriṃśat—32; ca—and; sakhīnām—of friends; tu—indeed; yūthāḥ—groups; bhāvyāḥ—will be; vraje—in Vraja; vidhe—O Brahmā.
English translation of verse 1.4.15:
O Brahma, in Vraja there will be groups led by eight gopī friends, by sixteen gopī friends, and by thirty-two gopī friends.