Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.9.15, 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 4.9.15
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
धृष्टबुद्धिर् वैश्य-पुत्रो
ज्ञाति-त्यक्तो महा-खलः
एकादशी-व्रतं कृत्वा
वैकुण्ठं स जगाम ह
dhṛṣṭabuddhir vaiśya-putro
jñāti-tyakto mahā-khalaḥ
ekādaśī-vrataṃ kṛtvā
vaikuṇṭhaṃ sa jagāma ha
dhṛṣṭabuddhiḥ—Dhṛṣṭabuddhi; vaiśya-putraḥ—the son of a vaisya; jñāti-tyaktaḥ—abandoned his relatiuves; mahā-khalaḥ—a sinner; ekādaśī-vratam—ekādaśī; kṛtvā—did; vaikuṇṭham—to Vaikuṇtha; sa—he; jagāma—went; ha—indeed.
English translation of verse 4.9.15:
The sinner Dhṛṣṭabuddhi, who was a vaiśya's son, and who abandoned his own relatives, followed ekādaśī and went to Vaikuṇṭha.