Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.8.37, 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 4.8.37
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
स-सागर-वनोपेतां
यो ददाति वसुन्धराम्
तत्-सहस्र-गुणं पुण्यं
एकादश्या महा-व्रते
sa-sāgara-vanopetāṃ
yo dadāti vasundharām
tat-sahasra-guṇaṃ puṇyaṃ
ekādaśyā mahā-vrate
sa-sāgara-vanopetām—mixed with the ocean; yaḥ—one who; dadāti—does; vasundharām—the earth; tat-sahasra—a thousand; guṇam—times; puṇyam—piety; ekādaśyā—of ekādaśī; mahā-vrate—on the great vow.
English translation of verse 4.8.37:
A person who follows ekādaśī attains a pious result thousands of times greater than the pious result attained by performing the ritual of mixing the earth and the ocean.