Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.4.12, 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 2 of Chapter 4 (The Liberation of Vatsasura) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).
Verse 2.4.12
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
अथ वृन्दावने राजन्
सर्व-गोपाल-सम्मतौ
बभूवतुर् वत्स-पालौ
राम-कृष्णौ मनोहरौ
atha vṛndāvane rājan
sarva-gopāla-sammatau
babhūvatur vatsa-pālau
rāma-kṛṣṇau manoharau
atha—then; vṛndāvane—in Vṛndāvana; rājan—O king; sarva-gopāla-sammatau—with all the gopas; babhūvatuḥ—were; vatsa-pālau—to protectors of the calves; rāma-kṛṣṇau—Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma; manoharau—handsome.
English translation of verse 2.4.12:
O king, then handsome Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, as well as the other gopa boys, were given the duty of protecting the calves in Vṛndāvana.