Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.16.4, 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 16 (The Sri Yamuna Armor) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).
Verse 4.16.4
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
स्नातः पुर्व-मुखो मौनी क्र्त-सन्ध्यः कुचासने कुचैर् बद्ध-चिखो विप्रः
snātaḥ purva-mukho maunī krta-sandhyaḥ kucāsane kucair baddha-cikho vipraḥ
पथेद् वै स्वस्तिकासनः
pathed vai svastikāsanaḥ
snātaḥ—bathed; purva-mukhaḥ—facing east; maunī—silent; krta-sandhyaḥ—having offered sandhya prayers; kucāsane—on a kuca seat; kucaiḥ—with kuca; baddha—bound; cikhaḥ—hair; vipraḥ—a brāhmana; pathet—should recite; vai—indeed; svastikāsanaḥ—sitting in svasita-asana.
English translation of verse 4.16.4:
A brāhmana should bathe, face the east, refrain from conversation, offer the sandhyā prayers, sit in the svastika-āsana posture on a kuca mat, tie his hair with kuca grass, and recite the following words.