Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verses 4.8.26-27, 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).
Verses 4.8.26-27
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
कांस्यं मांसं मसूरांस् च
कोद्रवं चणकं तथा
शाकं मधु परान्नं च
पुनर् भोजन-मैथुनम्
विष्णु-व्रते तु कर्तव्ये
दशम्यां दश वर्जयेत्
द्यूतं क्रीडां च निद्रां च
ताम्बूलं दन्त-धावनम्
kāṃsyaṃ māṃsaṃ masūrāṃs ca
kodravaṃ caṇakaṃ tathā
śākaṃ madhu parānnaṃ ca
punar bhojana-maithunam
viṣṇu-vrate tu kartavye
daśamyāṃ daśa varjayet
dyūtaṃ krīḍāṃ ca nidrāṃ ca
tāmbūlaṃ danta-dhāvanam
kāṃsyam—brass utensils; māṃsam—meat; masūrān—masura dal; ca—and; kodravam—kodrava; caṇakam—chick-peas; tathā—so; śākam—vegetables; madhu—honey; parānnam—the food of others; ca—and; punaḥ—again; bhojana—eating; maithunam—sex; viṣṇu-vrate—when the vow of ekādaśī; tu—indeed; kartavye—have been completed; daśamyām—on the dasami; daśa—these ten; varjayet—should avoid; dyūtam—gambling; krīḍām—playing; ca—and; nidrām—sleeping; ca—and; tāmbūlam—betelnuts; danta-dhāvanam—brushing the teeth.
English translation of verses 4.8.26-27:
When ekādaśī is ended, and the daśamī day has come, one should avoid these ten things: 1. eating from a brass dish, 2. eating flesh, 3. masūra dāl, 4. kodrava grains, 5. chick-peas, 6. spinach, 7. honey, 8. and the food of others, 9. eating twice, and 10. sex. One should also avoid gambling, playing, sleeping, chewing betelnuts, and brushing the teeth.