Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 3.5.11, 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 3 of Chapter 5 (The Dispute Among the Gopas) of Canto 3 (giriraja-khanda).
Verse 3.5.11
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
ण-कारो नरसिंहो ऽयं
अ-कारो ह्य् अक्षरो ऽग्नि-भुक्
विसर्गौ च तथा ह्य् एतौ
नर-नारायणाव् ऋषी
ṇa-kāro narasiṃho 'yaṃ
a-kāro hy akṣaro 'gni-bhuk
visargau ca tathā hy etau
nara-nārāyaṇāv ṛṣī
ṇa-kāraḥ—ṇ; narasiṃhaḥ—Lord Nṛsiṃha; ayam—He; a-kāraḥ—hy—a;; akṣaraḥ—the eternal; agni-bhuk—He who enjoys what is offered int he sacrificial fire; visargau—ḥ; ca—and; tathā—so; hy—indeed; etau—both; nara-nārāyaṇāu ṛṣī—Nara-Nārāyaṇa Ṛṣi.
English translation of verse 3.5.11:
"Ṇ" means "Lord Nṛsiṃha", "a" means "the eternal one" or "the Lord who enjoys what is offered in the sacrifical fire", and "ḥ" means "the Nara-Nārāyaṇa Ṛṣis".