Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.8.44, 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:

मेरु-मन्दर-मात्राणि
पापानि शत-जन्मसु
एकं चैकादशीं गोप्यो
दहते तूल-राशि-वत्

meru-mandara-mātrāṇi
pāpāni śata-janmasu
ekaṃ caikādaśīṃ gopyo
dahate tūla-rāśi-vat

meru-mandara-mātrāṇi—like a Mount Meru or a Mount Mandara; pāpāni—sins; śata-janmasu—in a hundred births; ekam—one; ca—and; ekādaśīm—ekādaśī; gopyaḥ—O gopīs; dahate—burns; tūla-rāśi-vat—like a great pile of cotton.

English translation of verse 4.8.44:

O gopīs, a fire burns a great pile of cotton, so a single ekādaśī burns the great Mount Meru of sins committed in a hundred births.

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