Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.15.17, 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 6.15.17
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
महा-नदीनां स्नानस्य
पुण्यं तस्य दिने दिनेगोपी-चन्दन-मूद्राभिर्
मूद्रितो यः सदा भवेत्
mahā-nadīnāṃ snānasya
puṇyaṃ tasya dine dinegopī-candana-mūdrābhir
mūdrito yaḥ sadā bhavet
mahā-nadīnām—of great sacred rivers; snānasya—of bathing; puṇyam—the pious result; tasya—of that; dine—day; dine—after day; gopī-candana—of gopī-candana; mūdrābhiḥ—by marking; mūdritaḥ—marked; yaḥ—who; sadā—always; bhavet—is.
English translation of verse 6.15.17:
A person who daily wears gopī-candana tilaka attains the pious result of daily bathing in all sacred rivers.