Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.8.42, 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 4.8.42
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
दश वै मातृके पक्षे
तथा वै दश पैतृके
प्रियया दश पक्षे तु
पुरुषान् उद्धरेन् नरः
daśa vai mātṛke pakṣe
tathā vai daśa paitṛke
priyayā daśa pakṣe tu
puruṣān uddharen naraḥ
daśa—ten; vai—indeed; mātṛke pakṣe—on the mother's side; tathā—so; vai—indeed; daśa—ten; paitṛke—on the father's side; priyayā—of the wife; daśa—ten; pakṣe—on the side; tu—indeed; puruṣān—people; uddharet—delivers; naraḥ—a person.
English translation of verse 4.8.42:
A person who follows ekādaśī delivers ten generations of his mother's family, ten generations of his father's family, and ten generations on his wife's family.