Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.8.10, 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 8 (In the Story of the Yajna-sitas, the Glories of Ekadashi) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).
Verse 4.8.10
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-गोप्य ऊचुः
सम्वत्सरस्यैकादश्या
नामानि वद राधिके
मासे मासे व्रतं तस्याः
कर्तव्यं केन भावतः
śrī-gopya ūcuḥ
samvatsarasyaikādaśyā
nāmāni vada rādhike
māse māse vrataṃ tasyāḥ
kartavyaṃ kena bhāvataḥ
śrī-gopya ūcuḥ—the gopīs said; samvatsarasya—of a year; ekādaśyā—of ekādaśī; nāmāni—the names; vada—please tell; rādhike—O Rādhā; māse māse—month after month; vratam—the vow; tasyāḥ—of that; kartavyam—should be done; kena—by what?; bhāvataḥ—according to the nature.
English translation of verse 4.8.10:
The gopīs said: O Rādhā, please tell us the names of the different ekādaśīs throughout the year. Month after month, how should the different ekādaśīs be observed?