Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.8.12, 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).

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

मासे मासे पृथग्-भूता
सैव सर्व-व्रतोत्तमा
तस्याः षड्-विंशतिं नाम्नां
वक्ष्यामि हित-कम्यया

māse māse pṛthag-bhūtā
saiva sarva-vratottamā
tasyāḥ ṣaḍ-viṃśatiṃ nāmnāṃ
vakṣyāmi hita-kamyayā

māse māse—month after month; pṛthag-bhūtāseaprately manifested; sa—that; eva—indeed; sarva-vratottamā—the best of holy vows; tasyāḥ—of that; ṣaḍ-viṃśatim—26; nāmnām—names; vakṣyāmi—I will tell; hita-kamyayā—desiring your welfare.

English translation of verse 4.8.12:

Desiring your welfare, I will tell you the names of the twenty-six most sacred ekādaśīs that appear in the differnet months.

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