Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.13.14, 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 13 (The Glories of Prabhasa-tirtha, the Sarasvati River, Bodha-pippala, and the Place Where the Gomati River Meets the Ocean) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).
Verse 6.13.14
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
अत्रैवोदाहरन्तीमं
इतिहासं पुरातनम्
यस्य श्रवण-मात्रेण
पाप-तापात् प्रमुच्यते
atraivodāharantīmaṃ
itihāsaṃ purātanam
yasya śravaṇa-mātreṇa
pāpa-tāpāt pramucyate
atra—here; eva—indeed; udāharanti—they say; imam—this; itihāsam—history; purātanam—ancient; yasya—of which; śravaṇa—by hearing; mātreṇa—simply; pāpa-tāpāt—from the sufferings of sins; pramucyate—released.
English translation of verse 6.13.14:
The wise tell an ancient story about this holy place. Simply by hearing it one becomes free from the sufferings brought by many sins.