Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.8.47, 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 4.8.47
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
शङ्खोद्धारे नरः स्नात्वा
दृष्ट्वा देवं गदाधरम्
एकादश्य्-उपवासस्य
कलां नार्हन्ति षोडशीम्
śaṅkhoddhāre naraḥ snātvā
dṛṣṭvā devaṃ gadādharam
ekādaśy-upavāsasya
kalāṃ nārhanti ṣoḍaśīm
śaṅkhoddhāre—at Sankhoddhara-tirtha; naraḥ—a person; snātvā—bathing; dṛṣṭvā—seeing; devam—the Lord; gadādharam—who holds a club; ekādaśy-upavāsasya—fasting on ekādaśī; kalām—a part; na—not; arhanti—is equal; ṣoḍaśīm—sixteenth.
English translation of verse 4.8.47:
A person who bathes at Saṅkhoddhara-tīrtha and gazes at the Deity of Lord Gadādhara there does not attain even one sixteenth of the piety one attains by fasting on ekādaśī.