Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.9.18, 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 4.9.18
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
हेममाली नाम यक्षः
कुष्ठी धनद-शापतः
एकादशी-व्रतं कृत्वा
चन्द्र-तुल्यो बभूव ह
hemamālī nāma yakṣaḥ
kuṣṭhī dhanada-śāpataḥ
ekādaśī-vrataṃ kṛtvā
candra-tulyo babhūva ha
hemamālī—Hemamali; nāma—named; yakṣaḥ—a yaksa; kuṣṭhī—a leper; dhanada-śāpataḥ—by the curse of Kuvera; ekādaśī-vratam—ekādaśī; kṛtvā—following; candra-tulyaḥ—like the moon; babhūva—became; ha—indeed.
English translation of verse 4.9.18:
A yakṣa named Hemamālī, who became a leper by Kuvera's curse, followed ekādaśī and became cured. He became splendid as the moon.