Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.19.28, 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 19 (In the First Fortress of Dvaraka, the Glories of Lila-sarovara, Hari-mandira, Jnana-tirtha, Krishna-kunda, Balabhadra-sarah, Ganesha-tirtha, Dana-sthala, and Maya-tirtha) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).
Verse 6.19.28
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
दान-तीर्थस्य पुण्यस्य
कलां नार्हति शोडशीम्
बद्रिकाश्रम-यात्रायां
यत् फलं लभते नरः
dāna-tīrthasya puṇyasya
kalāṃ nārhati śoḍaśīm
badrikāśrama-yātrāyāṃ
yat phalaṃ labhate naraḥ
dāna-tīrthasya—Dāna-tīrtha; puṇyasya—sacred; kalām—a part; na—not; arhati—is worthy; śoḍaśīm—sixteenth; badrikāśrama-yātrāyām—on a pilgrimage to Badarikāśrama; yat—what; phalam—result; labhate—attains; naraḥ—a person.
English translation of verse 6.19.28:
The pious result one attains by a pilgrimage to Badarikāśrama is not equal to one sixteenth of the result of a pilgrimage to Dāna-tīrtha.