Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.3.30, 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 2 of Chapter 3 (Description of the Yamuna’s Arrival) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).
Verse 2.3.30
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-सन्नन्द उवाच
इत्थं परस्परं नत्वा
द्वे नद्यौ ययतुर् द्रुतं
लोकान् पवित्री-कुर्वन्ती
पाताले स्वः-सरिद् गता
śrī-sannanda uvāca
itthaṃ parasparaṃ natvā
dve nadyau yayatur drutaṃ
lokān pavitrī-kurvantī
pātāle svaḥ-sarid gatā
śrī-sannandaḥ uvāca—Śrī Sannanda said; ittham—thus; parasparam—to each other; natvā—bowing down; dve—two; nadyau—rivers; yayatuḥ—-went; drutam—quickly; lokān—to the planets; pavitrī-kurvanti—purifying; pātāle—to Patala; svaḥ- sarit—the heavenly Gaṅgā; gatā—went.
English translation of verse 2.3.30:
Śrī Sannanda said: Bowing down before each other, the two rivers then quickly went their respective ways. The heavenly Gaṅgā went to Pātālaloka, purifying the planets as she passed.