Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.9.12, 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 4.9.12
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
गन्धर्वो ललितः पत्न्या
गतः शापात् स रक्षताम्
एकादशी-व्रतेनापि
पुनर् गन्धर्वतां गतः
gandharvo lalitaḥ patnyā
gataḥ śāpāt sa rakṣatām
ekādaśī-vratenāpi
punar gandharvatāṃ gataḥ
gandharvaḥ—the Gandharva; lalitaḥ—Lalita; patnyā—with his wife; gataḥ—went; śāpāt—from the curse; sa—he; rakṣatām—to the state of being a demon; ekādaśī-vratena—by following ekādaśī; api—also; punaḥ—again; gandharvatām—the state of being a Gandharva; gataḥ—attained.
English translation of verse 4.9.12:
Transformed into demons by a curse, Lalita and his wife followed ekādaśī and became Gandharvas again.