Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 3.9.20, 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 9 (The Birth of Shri Giriraja) of Canto 3 (giriraja-khanda).

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

श्री-कृष्ण-बाहु-मूलाभ्यां
सर्वे वै वृषभानवः
कृष्ण-रोम-समुद्भूताः
सर्वे गोप-गणा नृप

śrī-kṛṣṇa-bāhu-mūlābhyāṃ
sarve vai vṛṣabhānavaḥ
kṛṣṇa-roma-samudbhūtāḥ
sarve gopa-gaṇā nṛpa

śrī-kṛṣṇa-bāhu-mūlābhyām—from Śrī Kṛṣṇa's shoulder blades; sarve—all; vai—indeed; vṛṣabhānavaḥ—the Vṛṣabhānus; kṛṣṇa-roma-samudbhūtāḥ—from the hairs of Lord Kṛṣṇa's body; sarve—all; gopa-gaṇāthe gopas; nṛpaO king.

English translation of verse 3.9.20:

O king, from Śrī Kṛṣṇa's shoulder-blades all the Vṛṣabhānus were manifested.

From the hairs of Śrī Kṛṣṇa's body all the gopas were manifested.

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