Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.13.21, 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 13 (The Story of Shesha) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).
Verse 2.13.21
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
तेषाम् आदौ फणीन्द्रो ऽभूच्
छेषो ऽनन्तः परात् परः
सो ऽद्यैव बलदेवो ऽस्ति
रामो ऽनन्तो ऽच्युताग्रजः
teṣām ādau phaṇīndro 'bhūc
cheṣo 'nantaḥ parāt paraḥ
so 'dyaiva baladevo 'sti
rāmo 'nanto 'cyutāgrajaḥ
teṣām—of them; ādau—the first; phaṇīndraḥ—the king of snakes; abhūt—became; śeṣaḥ anantaḥ—Ananta Śeṣa; parāt—than the greatest; paraḥ—greater; saḥ—He; adya—now; eva—indeed; baladevaḥ—Balarāma; asti—is; rāmaḥ—Rāma; anantaḥ—limitless; acyuta—of the infallible Supreme Personality of Godhead; agrajaḥ—the elder brother.
English translation of verse 2.13.21:
Ananta Śeṣa, the king of snakes, who is greater than the greatest, was the first of them. Today Ananta is Balarāma, the elder brother of the infallible Supreme Personality of Godhead.