Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.24.51, 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).

Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:

कर्णक्षेत्राच् च षट्-क्रोशैर्
नलक्षेत्राच् च पञ्चभिः
आग्नेय्यां दिशि राजेन्द्र
राम-तीर्थं वदन्ति हि

karṇakṣetrāc ca ṣaṭ-krośair
nalakṣetrāc ca pañcabhiḥ
āgneyyāṃ diśi rājendra
rāma-tīrthaṃ vadanti hi

karṇakṣetrāt—from Kurukṣetra; ca—and; ṣaṭ—six; krośaiḥ—krośas; nalakṣetrāt—from Nalakṣetra; ca—and; pañcabhiḥ—with five; agneyyām—in the southeast; diśi—direction; rājendra—O great king; rāmatīrtham—Rāma-tīrtha; vadanti—say; hi—indeed.

English translation of verse 5.24.51:

O great king, they say that Rāma-tīrtha 12 miles southeast of Kurukṣetra and 10 miles southeast of Nalakṣetra.

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