Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.15.41, 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:

कस्यापि हस्ततो यत्र
पतिता द्वारका-मृदः
तत्रैवायं मृतः पापी
शुद्धो ऽभूत् तत्-प्रभावतः

kasyāpi hastato yatra
patitā dvārakā-mṛdaḥ
tatraivāyaṃ mṛtaḥ pāpī
śuddho 'bhūt tat-prabhāvataḥ

kasyāpi—of someone; hastataḥ—from the hand; yatrawhere; patitāfallen; dvārakā-mṛdaḥ—the mud of Dvārakā; tatra—there; eva—indeed; ayam-he; mṛtaḥdied; pāpīsinner; śuddhaḥ—purified; abhūt—became; tat-prabhāvataḥ—by its power.

English translation of verse 6.15.41:

That sinner died in a place where from someone's hand some gopī-candana from Dvārakā had accidentally fallen. Dying in gopī-candana, that sinner became purified.

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