Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.8.20, 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 4.8.20
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
अधमं कूपिक-स्नानं
वाप्यां स्नानं तु मध्यमम्
तडागे चोत्तमं स्नानं
नद्याः स्नानं ततः परम्
adhamaṃ kūpika-snānaṃ
vāpyāṃ snānaṃ tu madhyamam
taḍāge cottamaṃ snānaṃ
nadyāḥ snānaṃ tataḥ param
adhamam—worst; kūpika—well; snānam—bath; vāpyām—in a pond; snānam—bath; tu—indeed; madhyamam—intermediate; taḍāge—in a lake; ca—and; uttamam—the best; snānam—bath; nadyāḥ—in a river; snānam—bath; tataḥ—than that; param—even better.
English translation of verse 4.8.20:
Bathing with well-water is an inferior kind of bath. Bathing in a pond is better, bathing in a lake is better than that, and bathing in a river is better still.