Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.9.7, 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 4.9.7
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
ब्राह्मण्यै देव-पत्नीभिर्
दत्तम् एकादशी-व्रतम्
तेन लेभे स्वर्ग-सौख्यं
धन-धन्यं च मानुषी
brāhmaṇyai deva-patnībhir
dattam ekādaśī-vratam
tena lebhe svarga-saukhyaṃ
dhana-dhanyaṃ ca mānuṣī
brāhmaṇyai—to a brāhmaṇī; deva-patnībhiḥ—by the wives of the demigods; dattam—given; ekādaśī-vratam—the vow of ekādaśī; tena—by that; lebhe—attained; svarga-saukhyam—the happiness of Svargaloka; dhana-dhanyam—great wealth; ca—and; mānuṣī—the woman.
English translation of verse 4.9.7:
Once the demigoddesses gave ekādaśī to a brāhmaṇī. By following ekādaśī that brāhmaṇī attained great wealth and happiness like that on Svargaloka.