Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.9.5, 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 9 (The Glories of Sri Ekadashi) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).

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

अकस्माल् लुम्पकेनापि
ज्ञाति-त्यक्तेन पापिना
एकादशी कृता येन
राज्यं लेभे स लुम्पकः

akasmāl lumpakenāpi
jñāti-tyaktena pāpinā
ekādaśī kṛtā yena
rājyaṃ lebhe sa lumpakaḥ

akasmāt—suddenly; lumpakena—by Lumpaka; api——also; jñātiby his relatives; tyaktena—abandoned; pāpinā—sinful; ekādaśīekādaśī; kṛtādone; yena—by whom; rājyam—kingdom; lebhe—attaineded; sa—he; lumpakaḥ—Lumpaka.

English translation of verse 4.9.5:

A sinner named Lumpaka, who abandoned his relatives, followed ekādaśī and attained a great kingdom.

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