Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.24.43, 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 5 of Chapter 24 (The Killing of the Kola Demon) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).
Verse 5.24.43
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
स्नातुं भागिरथीं प्रागाद्
गर्गाचार्यादिभिर् वृतः
लोकानां सङ्ग्रहं कर्तुं
सर्व-दोष-क्षयाय च
snātuṃ bhāgirathīṃ prāgād
gargācāryādibhir vṛtaḥ
lokānāṃ saṅgrahaṃ kartuṃ
sarva-doṣa-kṣayāya ca
snātum—to bathe; bhāgirathīm—in the Gaṅgā; prāgāt—went; gargācāryādibhiḥ—headed by Garga MUni; vṛtaḥ—surrounded; lokānām—of the people; saṅgraham—protection; kartum—to do; sarva-doṣa-kṣayāya—to remove all sins; ca—and.
English translation of verse 5.24.43:
Then, to remove all sins and to protect all the worlds, Lord Balarāma, accompanied by Garga Muni and a host of great sages, went to bathe in the Gaṅgā.