Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.8.19, 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).

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

एक-वारं जलं पीत्वा
धौत-वस्त्रो ऽति-निर्मलः
ब्राह्मे मुहूर्त उत्थाय
चैकादश्यां हरिं नतः

eka-vāraṃ jalaṃ pītvā
dhauta-vastro 'ti-nirmalaḥ
brāhme muhūrta utthāya
caikādaśyāṃ hariṃ nataḥ

eka-vāramone time; jalamwater; pītvādrinking; dhauta-vastraḥclean garments; ati-nirmalaḥvery pure; brāhme muhūrte—during brahma-muhurta; utthāyarising; ca—and; ekādaśyām—on ekādaśī; harim—to Lord Kṛṣṇa; nataḥ—bow down.

English translation of verse 4.8.19:

During ekādaśī one should be pure-hearted and very clean, wear clean garments, drink water only once, rise for brāhma-muhūrta, and bow down to Lord Kṛṣṇa

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