Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.24.48, 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 5.24.48
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
कार्त्तिक्यां कार्त्तिके स्नत्वा
रमतीर्थे तु जाह्नवीम्
हरिद्वाराच् छत-गुणं
पुण्यं वै लभते जनः
kārttikyāṃ kārttike snatvā
ramatīrthe tu jāhnavīm
haridvārāc chata-guṇaṃ
puṇyaṃ vai labhate janaḥ
kārttikyām—on the full-moon day; kārttike—in the month of Kārttika; snatvā—having bathed; ramatīrthe—at Rāma-tīrtha; tu—indeed; jāhnavīm—in the Ganges; haridvārāt—from Hardwar; śata—a hundred times; guṇam—multiplied; puṇyam—piety; vai—indeed; labhate—attains; janaḥ—a person.
English translation of verse 5.24.48:
A person who on the full-moon day of the month of Kārttika bathes in the Ganges at Rāma-tīrtha attains piety a hundred times greater than at Hardwar.