Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 3.10.16, 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 10 (The Glory of Shri Giriraja) of Canto 3 (giriraja-khanda).
Verse 3.10.16
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
पञ्च-वर्ष-सहस्राणि
केदरे यत् तपः-फलम्
तच् च गोवर्धने विप्र
क्षणेन लभते नरः
pañca-varṣa-sahasrāṇi
kedare yat tapaḥ-phalam
tac ca govardhane vipra
kṣaṇena labhate naraḥ
pañca-varṣa-sahasrāṇi—five thousand years; kedare—on Mount Kedara; yat—what; tapaḥ-phalam—the result of austerities; tac—that; ca—and; govardhane—on Govardhana Hill; vipra—O brāhmaṇa; kṣaṇena—in a moment; labhate—attains; naraḥ—a person.
English translation of verse 3.10.16:
O brāhmaṇa, the same result one attains by performing austerities for five thousand years on Mount Kedāra is attained in a single moment on Govardhana Hill.