Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.3.1, 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 4 of Chapter 3 (The Story of the Mithila Women) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).
Verse 4.3.1
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-नारद उवाच
मैथिलीनां गोइपिकानां
आख्यानं शृणु मैथिल
दशाश्वमेध-तीर्थस्य
फलदं भक्ति-वर्धनम्
śrī-nārada uvāca
maithilīnāṃ goipikānāṃ
ākhyānaṃ śṛṇu maithila
daśāśvamedha-tīrthasya
phaladaṃ bhakti-vardhanam
śrī-nārada uvāca—Srī Nārada said; maithilīnām—of the women of Mithilā; goipikānām—of the gopīs; ākhyānam—the stopry; śṛṇu—hear; maithila—O king of Mithilā; daśāśvamedha-tīrthasya—of the holy place dasasvamedha; phaladam—giving the result; bhakti-vardhanam—increasing devotion.
English translation of verse 4.3.1:
Srī Nārada said: O king of Mithilā, please hear the story of the Mithilā women that become gopīs, a story that brings the result of visiting sacred Daśāśvamedha-tīrtha, a story the increases one's love for Lord Kṛṣṇa.