Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 3.10.17, 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 3.10.17
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
मलयाद्रौ स्वर्ण-भार-
दानस्यापि च यत् फलम्
तस्मात् कोटि-गुणं पुण्यं
गिरिराजे हि मासिकम्
malayādrau svarṇa-bhāra-
dānasyāpi ca yat phalam
tasmāt koṭi-guṇaṃ puṇyaṃ
girirāje hi māsikam
malayādrau—in the Malaya Hills; svarṇa—of gold; bhāra—of a bhara; dānasya—of charity; api—even; ca—and; yat—that; phalam—result; tasmāt—than that; koṭi-guṇam—multiplied millions of times; puṇyam—piety; girirāje—on Govardhana Hill; hi—indeed; māsikam—one month.
English translation of verse 3.10.17:
By staying for one month on Govardhana Hill one attains a pious result many millions of times greater than the result of giving in charity a bhāra of gold in the Malaya Hills.