Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.1.33, 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 6 of Chapter 1 (Jarasandha’s Defeat) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).
Verse 6.1.33
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
विद्याधर्यश् च स्वर्ग-स्था
गन्धर्व्यो ऽप्सरसस् तथा
क्षत्र-धर्म-स्थितान् वीरान्
वव्रिरे देव-रूपिणः
vidyādharyaś ca svarga-sthā
gandharvyo 'psarasas tathā
kṣatra-dharma-sthitān vīrān
vavrire deva-rūpiṇaḥ
vidyādharyaḥ—Vidyadharis; ca—and; svarga-sthā—in Svargaloka; gandharvyaḥ—Gandharvis; apsarasaḥ—Apsaras; tathā—so; kṣatra-dharma-sthitān—folloing ksatriya-dharma; vīrān—warriors; vavrire—chose; deva-rūpiṇaḥ—the forms of demigods.
English translation of verse 6.1.33:
The warriors that died nobly upholding the principles of kṣatriya-dharma became demigods and the Vidyādharī, Gandharvīs, and Apsarā demigoddesses of Svargaloka selected them to be their husbands.