Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 3.7.25, 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).

Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:

नेत्रे त्व् आच्छाद्य यत्रैव
लीनो ऽभून् माधवो ऽर्भकैः
तत्र तीर्थं लौकिकं च
जातं पाप-प्रणाशनम्

netre tv ācchādya yatraiva
līno 'bhūn mādhavo 'rbhakaiḥ
tatra tīrthaṃ laukikaṃ ca
jātaṃ pāpa-praṇāśanam

netre—eyes; tu—indeed; ācchādyacovering; yatrawhere; eva—indeed; līnaḥdisappeared; abhūt—became; mādhavaḥKṛṣṇa; arbhakaiḥ—with the boys; tatra—there; tīrtham—the holy place; laukikam—in this world; ca—and; jātam—manifested; pāpa-praṇāśanam—destroying sins.

English translation of verse 3.7.25:

The place where Kṛṣṇa and the boys played games of closing their eyes and hiding is called Laukika-tīrtha. It destroys all sins.

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