Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.11.2, 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 4 of Chapter 11 (The Story of the Gopis That were Residents of Rama-vaikuntha, Shvetadvipa, Urdhva-vaikuntha, Ajita-pada, and Shri Lokacala) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).
Verse 4.11.2
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
नीति-विन् मार्गदः शुक्लः
पतङ्गो दिव्य-वाहनः
गोपेष्टाश् च व्रजे राजन्
जाता षड् वृषभानवः
nīti-vin mārgadaḥ śuklaḥ
pataṅgo divya-vāhanaḥ
gopeṣṭāś ca vraje rājan
jātā ṣaḍ vṛṣabhānavaḥ
nīti-vit—Nitivit; mārgadaḥ—Margada; śuklaḥ—Sukla; pataṅgaḥ—Patanga; divya-vāhanaḥ—Divyavahana; gopeṣṭāś—Gopesta; ca—and; vraje—in Vraja; rājan—O king; jātā—born; ṣaḍ—the six; vṛṣabhānavaḥ—Vṛṣabhānus.
English translation of verse 4.11.2:
O king, the six Vṛṣabhānus: Nītivit, Mārgada, Śukla, Pataṅga, Divyavāhana, and Gopeṣṭa, were born in Vraja.