Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 4.9.16, 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).

Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:

राज्ञा रुक्माङ्गदेनापि
कृतम् एकादशी-व्रतम्
तेन भु-मण्डलं भुक्त्वा
वैकुण्ठं स-पुरो ययौ

rājñā rukmāṅgadenāpi
kṛtam ekādaśī-vratam
tena bhu-maṇḍalaṃ bhuktvā
vaikuṇṭhaṃ sa-puro yayau

rājñā—by the king; rukmāṅgadena—Rukmangada; api—also; kṛtam—done; ekādaśī-vratam—ekādaśī; tena—by that; bhu-maṇḍalam—the earth; bhuktvāenjoying; vaikuṇṭham—to Vaikuṇṭha; sa-puraḥ—with his city; yayau—went.

English translation of verse 4.9.16:

By following ekādaśī King Rukmaṅgada was able to rule the circle of the earth and go, taking with him the citizens of his kingdom, to Vaikuṇṭha.

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