Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.20.3, 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:

तथा वै दक्शिणे द्वारे
सूर्य-कुण्डो ऽभिधीयते
यदा सत्राजितेनापि
पूजितो ऽभूत् स्यमन्तकः

tathā vai dakśiṇe dvāre
sūrya-kuṇḍo 'bhidhīyate
yadā satrājitenāpi
pūjito 'bhūt syamantakaḥ

tathā—so; vai—indeed; dakśiṇe—at the southern; dvāre—gate; sūrya-kuṇḍaḥ Sūrya-kuṇḍa; abhidhīyate—is called; yadā—when; satrājitena—by satrājit; api— also; pūjitaḥ—worshiped; abhūt—was; syamantakaḥthe Syamantaka.

English translation of verse 6.20.3:

At the southern gate is Sūrya-kuṇḍa, where Satrājit worshiped the Syamantaka jewel.

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