Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 1.18.7, 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 18 (Vision of the Universal Form) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).

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

नीतिविन् मार्गदः शुक्लः
पतङ्गो दिव्यवाहनः
गोपेष्टाश् च व्रजे राजन्
जाताः षड्-वृषभानवः

nītivin mārgadaḥ śuklaḥ
pataṅgo divyavāhanaḥ
gopeṣṭāś ca vraje rājan
jātāḥ ṣaḍ-vṛṣabhānavaḥ

nītivin—Nitivin; mārgadaḥ—Margada; śuklaḥSukla; pataṅgaḥPatanga; divyavāhanaḥ—Divyavahana; gopeṣṭāḥ—Gopesta; ca—and;' vraje—in Vraja; rājanO king; jātāḥ—born; ṣaḍ-vṛṣabhānavaḥ—the six Vṛṣabhānus.

English translation of verse 1.18.7:

Nītivin, Mārgada, Śukla, Pataṅga, Divyavāhana, and Gopeṣṭa were the six Vṛṣabhānus in Vraja, O king.

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