Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 4.19.137, 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 19 (A Thousand Names of Sri Yamuna) of Canto 4 (madhurya-khanda).
Verse 4.19.137
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
पुज-काले तु यो नित्यम् पथते भक्ति-भावतः
puja-kāle tu yo nityam pathate bhakti-bhāvataḥ
lipyate nā sa pāpena padma-patram ivāmbhasā puja-kāle—at the time of worship; tu—indeed; yaḥ—one who; nityam—regularly; pathate—recites; bhakti-bhāvataḥ—with devotion; lipyate—is touched; nā—not; sa—he; pāpena—by sin; padma-patram—a lotus leaf; iva—like; ambhasā -by water.
English translation of verse 4.19.137:
A person who when he worships the Lord recites these thousand names of Sri Yamunā is never touched by sin as a lotus leaf is never touched by water.