Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.15.6, 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 15 (The Glories of Nriga-kupa and Gopi-bhumi) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).
Verse 6.15.6
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
तस्माच् चतुर्-गुणं पुण्यं
सैन्धवाख्ये महा-वने
जम्बु-मार्गे पञ्च-गुणं
पुण्यं प्राप्नोति मानवः
tasmāc catur-guṇaṃ puṇyaṃ
saindhavākhye mahā-vane
jambu-mārge pañca-guṇaṃ
puṇyaṃ prāpnoti mānavaḥ
tasmāt—from that; catur-guṇam—four times as great; puṇyam—pious result; saindhavākhye—named Saindhava; mahā-vane—in the great forest; jambu-mārge—at jambu-mārga; pañca-guṇam—five times as great; puṇyam—piety; prāpnoti—attains; mānavaḥ—a human.
English translation of verse 6.15.6:
A person attains a pious result is four times as great at Saindhavāraṇya and five times greater than that at Jambu-mārga.