Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 3.7.24, 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 3 of Chapter 7 (The Holy Places of Shri Giriraja) of Canto 3 (giriraja-khanda).
Verse 3.7.24
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
दधि-दानं तत्र कृत्वा
पीत्वा पत्र-धृतं दधि
नमस्कुर्यान् नरस् तस्य
गोलोकान् न च्युतिर् भवेत्
dadhi-dānaṃ tatra kṛtvā
pītvā patra-dhṛtaṃ dadhi
namaskuryān naras tasya
golokān na cyutir bhavet
dadhi—of yogurt; dānam—the giving; tatra—there; kṛtvā—doing; pītvā—drinking; patra-dhṛtam—held in a leaf-cup; dadhi—yogurt; namaskuryāt-bowing down; naraḥ—a person; tasya—of him; golokāt—from Goloka; na—not; cyutiḥ—falling; bhavet—will be.
English translation of verse 3.7.24:
A person who at this place gives yogurt in charity, drinks yogurt from a leaf-cup, and then bows down to offer his respectful obeisances, never falls from Goloka.