Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.8.52, 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 4.8.52
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
दश-वर्ष-सहस्राणि
तपस् तप्यति यो नरः
तत्-तुल्यं फलम् आप्नोति
द्वादशी-व्रत-कृन् नरः
daśa-varṣa-sahasrāṇi
tapas tapyati yo naraḥ
tat-tulyaṃ phalam āpnoti
dvādaśī-vrata-kṛn naraḥ
daśa-varṣa-sahasrāṇi—for ten thousand years; tapaḥ—austerities; tapyati—perfroms; yaḥ—who; naraḥ—a person; tat-tulyam—equal to that; phalam—a result; āpnoti—attains; dvādaśī-vrata-kṛt—following ekādaśī; naraḥ—a person.
English translation of verse 4.8.52:
A person who follows ekādaśī attains the result of performing austerities for ten thousand years.