Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.14.4, 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 14 (The Glories of Ratnakara, Raivata, and Kacala) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).

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

तद्-देह-स्पर्शनात् सद्यो
ब्रह्म-हत्या प्रमुच्यते
यत्र यत्र गतः सो ऽपि
तत्र तत्र स भूः शुभा

tad-deha-sparśanāt sadyo
brahma-hatyā pramucyate
yatra yatra gataḥ so 'pi
tatra tatra sa bhūḥ śubhā

tad-dehaof his body; sparśanāt—by the touch; sadyaḥat once; brahma- hatyā—the sin of killing a brāhmaṇa; pramucyate—is freed; yatra yatra—wherever; gataḥ—gone; so 'pi—he; tatra tatra—there; sa—he; bhūḥ—the earth; śubhā

English translation of verse 6.14.4:

auspicious.

Simply by tyouching his body one becomes free of the sin of killing a brāhmaṇa. Any place he visits becomes sacred and auspicious.

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