Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.9.6, 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).
Verse 4.9.6
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
भद्रावत्यां केतुमता
कृतम् एकादशी-व्रतम्
पुत्र-हीनेन सद्-वाक्यात्
पुत्रं लेभे स मानवः
bhadrāvatyāṃ ketumatā
kṛtam ekādaśī-vratam
putra-hīnena sad-vākyāt
putraṃ lebhe sa mānavaḥ
bhadrāvatyām—in Bhadravati; ketumatā—by Ketumān; kṛtam—done; ekādaśī-vratam—the vow of ekādaśī; putra-hīnena—without a son; sad-vākyāt—by the words of a saint; putram—a son; lebhe—attained; sa—he; mānavaḥ—the person.
English translation of verse 4.9.6:
In the city of Bhadrāvatī, King Ketumān was sonless. Following ekādaśī on a great saint's advice, he obtained a son.