Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.8.32, 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 4.8.32
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-राधोवाच
दशमी पञ्च-पञ्चाशद्
घटिका चेत् प्रदृश्यते
तर्हि चैकादशी त्याज्या
द्वादशीं समुपोषयेत्
śrī-rādhovāca
daśamī pañca-pañcāśad
ghaṭikā cet pradṛśyate
tarhi caikādaśī tyājyā
dvādaśīṃ samupoṣayet
śrī-rādhā uvāca—Srī Rādhā said; daśamī—the daśamī; pañca-pañcāśat—fifty-five; ghaṭikā—ghatikas; cet—if; pradṛśyate—is seen; tarhi—then; ca—and; ekādaśī—ekādaśī; tyājyā—abandoning; dvādaśīm—the dvādaśī; samupoṣayet—one should fast.
English translation of verse 4.8.32:
If dvādaśī starts within the first twenty-two hours of ekādaśī, one should not fast on ekādaśī, but on dvādaśī instead.
Note: One ghaṭikā equals twenty-four minutes. Fifty-five ghaṭikās equal twenty-two hours.