Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.10.22, 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:

शण्खोद्धारः कृतो यस्मिन्
हरिणा मैथिलेश्वर
तस्मात् तीर्थं महा-पुण्यं
शण्खोद्धार-प्रथं गतम्

śaṇkhoddhāraḥ kṛto yasmin
hariṇā maithileśvara
tasmāt tīrthaṃ mahā-puṇyaṃ
śaṇkhoddhāra-prathaṃ gatam

śaṇkha—the conch; uddhāraḥdeliverance; kṛtaḥdone; yasminwhere; hariṇā—by Lord Kṛṣṇa; maithileśvara—O king of Mithilā; tasmāt—from that; tīrtham—holy plave; mahā-puṇyam—very sacred; śaṇkhoddhāra-pratham—named Śaṇkhoddhāra; gatam—gone.

English translation of verse 6.10.22:

O king of Mithilā, this very sacred place, where Lord Kṛṣṇa delivered a conch, is known as Śaṇkhoddhāra-tīrtha.

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