Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 3.10.39, 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).

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

अश्वमेध-सहस्राणि
राजसूय-शतानि च
मानसी-गङ्गया तुल्यं
न भवन्त्य् अत्र नो गिरौ

aśvamedha-sahasrāṇi
rājasūya-śatāni ca
mānasī-gaṅgayā tulyaṃ
na bhavanty atra no girau

aśvamedha-sahasrāṇi—thousand asvamedha-yajnas; rājasūya-śatāni—a hundred rajasuya-yajnas; ca—and; mānasī-gaṅgayā—with manasa-gaṅgā; tulyam—equal; na—not; bhavanty—is; atra—here; na—not; u—indeed; girau—on Govardhana Hill.

English translation of verse 3.10.39:

Neither a thousand aśvamedha-yajñas nor a hundred rājasūya-yajñas are equal to visiting Mānasa-gaṅgā on Govardhana Hill.

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