Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.15.3, 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 15 (The Story of the Women of Barhishmati-pura, the Apsaras, and the Women of Sutala and Nagendra) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).
Verse 4.15.3
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
बर्हिष्मती-पुर्-अन्ध्र्यो या
जाता जाति-स्मराः पराः
तथान्याप्सरसो ऽभूवन्
barhiṣmatī-pur-andhryo yā
jātā jāti-smarāḥ parāḥ
tathānyāpsaraso 'bhūvan
वरान् नारायणस्य च
varān nārāyaṇasya ca
barhiṣmatī-pur-andhryaḥ—the girls of Bharismati-pura; yā—who; jātā—born; jāti-smarāḥ—remembering their previous birth; parāḥ—others; tathā—so; anyā—others; apsarasaḥ—apsaras; abhūvan—becasme; varān—by the benediction; nārāyaṇasya—of Lord Nārāyaṇa; ca—and.
English translation of verse 4.15.3:
Some had been the women of Barhiṣmatī-pura. They remembered their previous birth. Others had been apsarās and became gopī by the blessings of Nārāyaṇa Ṛṣi