Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.8.38, 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).

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

ये संसारार्णवे मग्नाः
पाप-पङ्क-समाकुले
तेषाम् उद्धरणार्थाय
द्वादशी-व्रतम् उत्तमम्

ye saṃsārārṇave magnāḥ
pāpa-paṅka-samākule
teṣām uddharaṇārthāya
dvādaśī-vratam uttamam

ye—they who; saṃsāraof birth and death; arṇave—in the ocean; magnāḥdrowning; pāpa-paṅka-samākule—filled with the mud of sins; teṣām—of them; uddharaṇārthāya—to deliver; dvādaśī-vratam—the vow of following ekādaśī and dvādaśī; uttamam—is the best.

English translation of verse 4.8.38:

For they who are drowning in the ocean of repeated birth and death, an ocean muddy with many sins, the vow of fasting on ekādaśī is the best means of deliverance.

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