Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 5.24.49, 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 5.24.49
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
श्री-बहुलाश्व उवाच
कौसम्बाच् च कियद् दूरं
स्थले कस्मिन् महा-मुने
रमतीर्थं महा-पुण्यं मह्यं वक्तुं त्वम् अर्हसि
śrī-bahulāśva uvāca
kausambāc ca kiyad dūraṃ
sthale kasmin mahā-mune
ramatīrthaṃ mahā-puṇyaṃ mahyaṃ vaktuṃ tvam arhasi
śrī-bahulāśvaḥ—Śrī Bahulāśva; uvāca—said; kausambāt—from Kusanagara; ca—and; kiyat—how much?; dūram—far; sthale—place; kasmin—in what?; mahā-mune—O great sage; ramatīrtham—Rāma-tīrtha; mahā-puṇyam—great piety; mahyam—to me; vaktum—to speak; tvam—you; arhasi—desrve.
English translation of verse 5.24.49:
Śrī Bahulāśva said: How far, and in what direction from Kauśāravi City, is very sacred Rāma-tīrtha? Please tell me.