Garga (sage)
Garga is a male Indian name. It is a sage name who did "nam karan" to lord Sri Krishna. It is found in Vedic and Puranic literature. In Vedic literature, Garga is either related to Bharadvaja or Angiras. Some ancient Jyotisha texts are attributed to Garga. He is presented as belonging to the Yadavas and a part of King Prithu mythology. His passages have been quoted by Max Muller as a part of his evidence that time keeping using constellations was a part of the Vedic era knowledge. A Sanskrit text on astronomy dated to about 1st-century CE is called Garga samhita.
Garga also appears in medieval era literature. For example, one sage Garga is the student of Lakulisha and is credited with founding one of the subsects of Pashupata Shaivism.
