Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.10.3, 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 6 of Chapter 10 (In the Description of the Gomati River, the Glories of Cakra-tirtha) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).

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

श्री-नारद उवाच
आ-प्रभासात् तीर्थमयी
मर्यादी-कृत्य यज्ञिया
भूमिर् मोक्श-प्रदा राजन्
द्वारका योजनैः शतम्

śrī-nārada uvāca
ā-prabhāsāt tīrthamayī
maryādī-kṛtya yajñiyā
bhūmir mokśa-pradā rājan
dvārakā yojanaiḥ śatam

śrī-nārada uvāca—Śrī Nārada said; ā-prabhāsāt—from Prabhāsa; tīrthamayī— consisting of the holy places; maryādī-kṛtyaup to the boundary; yajñiyā—for performing yajna; bhūmiḥ—place; mokśa-pradā—giving liberation; rājanO king; dvārakāDvārakā; yojanaiḥ—yojanas; śatam—a hundred.

English translation of verse 6.10.3:

Śrī Nārada said: Extending all the way to Prabhāsa-tīrtha, the sacred land of Dvārakā is eight hundred miles in size.

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