Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.20.2, 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 20 (In the Description of the Second Fort, the Glories of Indra-tirtha, Brahma-tirtha, Surya-kunda, Nailalohita-tirtha, and Sapta-samudra-tirtha) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).

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

तत्र स्नात्वा नरो राजन्न्
इन्द्रलोकं प्रयाति हि
इहैव चन्द्र-सादृश्यं
वैभवं प्राप्यते नरः

tatra snātvā naro rājann
indralokaṃ prayāti hi
ihaiva candra-sādṛśyaṃ
vaibhavaṃ prāpyate naraḥ

tatra—there; snātvā—bathing; naraḥa person; rājann—O king; indralokam— Indraloka; prayātigoes; hi—indeed; iha—here; eva—indeed; candra-sādṛśyam— like the moon; vaibhavam—power; prāpyate—attains; naraḥ—a person.

English translation of verse 6.20.2:

O king, a person who bathes there goes to Indraloka. There he becomes glorious like the moon.

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