Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 2.16.4, 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 16 (The Worship of Tulasi) of Canto 2 (vrindavana-khanda).
Verse 2.16.4
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
नवधा तुलसी-भक्तिं
ये कुर्वन्ति दिने दिने
युग-कोटि-सहस्राणि
ते यान्ति सुकृतं शुभे
navadhā tulasī-bhaktiṃ
ye kurvanti dine dine
yuga-koṭi-sahasrāṇi
te yānti sukṛtaṃ śubhe
navadhā—nine kinds; tulasī-bhaktim—devotional service to Tulasī; ye—who; kurvanti—do; dine—day; dine—after day; yuga—of yugas; koṭi——ten million; sahasrāṇi—thousands; te—they; yānti—attain; sukṛtam—piety; śubhe—O beautiful one.
English translation of verse 2.16.4:
They who day after day serve Tulasī in these nine ways attain the result of pious deeds performed in many thousands of millions of yugas.