Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.15.8, 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).

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

तस्माच् च नैमिषारण्ये
पुण्यं दश-गुणं स्मृतम्
तस्माच् छत-गुणं पुण्यं
कपिटङ्के विदेह-राट्

tasmāc ca naimiṣāraṇye
puṇyaṃ daśa-guṇaṃ smṛtam
tasmāc chata-guṇaṃ puṇyaṃ
kapiṭaṅke videha-rāṭ

tasmāt—than that; ca—and; naimiṣāraṇye—at Naimiṣāraṇya; puṇyam—piety; daśa-guṇam—ten times; smṛtam—considered; tasmāt—than that; śata-guṇam—a hundred times; puṇyam—piety; kapiṭaṅke—at Kapiṭaṅka; videha-rāṭ—O king of Videha.

English translation of verse 6.15.8:

That pious result is ten times greater again at Naimiṣāraṇya and hundred times greater than that at Utpalāvārta.

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