Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.12.12, 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 5 of Chapter 12 (Pancajana’s Previous Birth) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.12.12
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
स्रि-बहुलच्व उवच कम्सनुज भ्रतरो ऽस्तौ कग्क-न्यग्रोधकदयह् ते के पुर्वम् वद मुने ये ऽपि मोक्सम् परम् गतह् स्रि-बहुलच्व
sri-bahulacva uvaca kamsanuja bhrataro 'stau kagka-nyagrodhakadayah te ke purvam vada mune ye 'pi moksam param gatah sri-bahulacva
uvaca—Sri Bahulacva said; kamsanuja bhratarah—the younger brothers of Kamsa; astau—eight; kagka-nyagrodhaka-adayah—headed by Kanka and Nyagrodha; te—they; ke—who?; purvam—before; vada—please tell; mune—O sage; ye—who; api—also; moksam—liberation; param—great; gatah—attained.
English translation of verse 5.12.12:
Sri Bahulacva said: Kamsa's had eight younger brothers, headed by Kagka and Nyagrodha, who attained liberation. Who were they in their previous births. O sage, please tell me this.