Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.9.10, 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 4.9.10
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
लयान्ते च समुत्पन्ना
धतृ-वृक्ष-तले सुराः
एकादशी-व्रतं चक्रुः
सर्व-कल्याण-हेतवे
layānte ca samutpannā
dhatṛ-vṛkṣa-tale surāḥ
ekādaśī-vrataṃ cakruḥ
sarva-kalyāṇa-hetave
layānte—at the end of the cosmic devastation; ca—and; samutpannā—manifested; dhatṛ-vṛkṣa-tale—on the tree of the creator; surāḥ—the demigods; ekādaśī-vratam—ekādaśī; cakruḥ—did; sarva-kalyāṇa-hetave—to attain all auspiciousness.
English translation of verse 4.9.10:
When, after the period of cosmic devastation had ended, the demigods were again manifested from the tree of creation, they followed ekādaśī to attain all auspiciousness.