Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.5.26, 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 5 (The Lord’s Appearance) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

युयुधानश् चाम्बरीषः
प्रह्लादः सत्यकिस् तथा
क्षीराब्धिः शान्तनुः साक्षाद्
भीष्मो द्रोणो वसूत्तमः

yuyudhānaś cāmbarīṣaḥ
prahlādaḥ satyakis tathā
kṣīrābdhiḥ śāntanuḥ sākṣād
bhīṣmo droṇo vasūttamaḥ

yuyudhānaḥYuyudhāna; ca—and; ambarīṣaḥAmbarīṣa; prahlādaḥ

English translation of verse 1.5.26:

Prahlāda; satyakiḥSatyakis; tathā—so; kṣīrābdhiḥ—the ocean of milk;

śāntanuḥŚāntanu; sākṣāt—directly; bhīṣmaḥBhīṣma; droṇaḥDroṇa;

vasūttamaḥ—the best of the Vasus.

Ambarīṣa will descend as Yuyudhāna, Prahlāda as Satyaki, Kṣīrābdhi as Śantanu, and Droṇa Vasūttama as Bhīṣma.

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