Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 1.4.16, 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 1.4.16
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्रुति-रूपा ऋषि-रूपा
मैथिलाः कौशलास् तथा
अयोध्या-पुर-वासिन्यो
śruti-rūpā ṛṣi-rūpā
maithilāḥ kauśalās tathā
ayodhyā-pura-vāsinyo
यज्ञ-सीताः पुलिन्दकाः
yajña-sītāḥ pulindakāḥ
śruti—of the Vedas; rūpāḥ—forms; ṛṣi—of the sages; rūpāḥ—forms; maithilāḥ—of the women of Mithilā; kauśalāḥ—the people of Koṣalā; tathā—so; ayodhyā-pura-vāsinyaḥ—the women of Ayodhyā; yajña-sītāḥ—the Yajña Sītās; pulindakāḥ—the Pulindā girls.
English translation of verse 1.4.16:
Some of the gopīs to be had been Personified Vedas, some great sages, some women in Mithilā, some women in Koṣalā, some women in Ayodhyā, some yajñ-sītās, and some Pulindā girls.