Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.10.10, 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).
Verse 6.10.10
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
मकर-स्थे रवौ माघे
प्रयागे स्नानम् आचरेत्
शताश्वमेधजं पुण्यं
सम्प्राप्नोति विदेह-राट्
makara-sthe ravau māghe
prayāge snānam ācaret
śatāśvamedhajaṃ puṇyaṃ
samprāpnoti videha-rāṭ
makara-sthe—in Capricorn; ravau—when the sun; māghe—in the month of Magha (January-February); prayāge—at Prayāga; snānam—bath; ācaret—does; śatāśvamedhajam—a hundred asvamedha-yajnas; puṇyam—the piety; samprāpnoti—attains; videha-rāṭ—O king of Videha.
English translation of verse 6.10.10:
O king of Videha, a person who bathes at Prayāga in the month of Māgha
(January-February) when the sun is in Capricorn attains the pious result of performing a hundred aśvamedha-yajñas.