Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.8.34, 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 8 (In the Story of the Yajna-sitas, the Glories of Ekadashi) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).
Verse 4.8.34
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
एकादशी यदा वृद्धिं
द्वादशी च यदा गता
तदा परा ह्य् उपोष्या स्यात्
पूर्वा वै द्वादशी-व्रते
ekādaśī yadā vṛddhiṃ
dvādaśī ca yadā gatā
tadā parā hy upoṣyā syāt
pūrvā vai dvādaśī-vrate
ekādaśī—ekādaśī; yadā—when; vṛddhim—complete; dvādaśī—dvādaśī; ca—and; yadā—when; gatā—gone; tadā—then; parā—great; hi—indeed; upoṣyā—fasting; syāt—should be; pūrvā—before; vai—indeed; dvādaśī-vrate—on the vow of dvādaśī.
English translation of verse 4.8.34:
When ekādaśī goes to its completion, and dvādaśi arrives at the proper time, then one should fast on ekādaśī.