Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.10.9, 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 10 (Description of Shri Krishna’s Herding the Cows) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).
Verse 2.10.9
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
लघु-शृङ्ग्यो दीर्घ-शृङ्ग्य
उच्च-शृङ्ग्यो वृषैः सह
मृग-शृङ्ग्यो वक्र-शृङ्ग्यः
कपिला मङ्गलायनाः
laghu-śṛṅgyo dīrgha-śṛṅgya
ucca-śṛṅgyo vṛṣaiḥ saha
mṛga-śṛṅgyo vakra-śṛṅgyaḥ
kapilā maṅgalāyanāḥ
laghu—small; śṛṅgyaḥ—horns; dīrgha—long; śṛṅgya—horns; ucca—high; śṛṅgyaḥ—horns; vṛṣaiḥ—bulls; saha—with; mṛga—deer; śṛṅgyaḥ—horns; vakra—bent; śṛṅgyaḥ—horns; kapilā—brown; maṅgalāyanāḥ—auspicious.
English translation of verse 2.10.9:
Some had short horns, some long horns, some high horns, some bent horns, and some horns like a deer's antlers. Some were with many bulls. Some were brown and beautiful.