Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.20.4, 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).
Verse 6.20.4
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
तत्र स्नात्वा पद्मरागं
यो ददाति नृपेश्वर
सूर्य-प्रभ-विमानेन
सूर्यलोकं प्रयाति हि
tatra snātvā padmarāgaṃ
yo dadāti nṛpeśvara
sūrya-prabha-vimānena
sūryalokaṃ prayāti hi
tatra—there; snātvā—bathing; padmarāgam—ruby; yaḥ—who; dadāti—gives; nṛpeśvara—O king of kings; sūrya-prabha—splendid as the sun; vimānena—with an airplane; sūryalokam—to Sūryaloka; prayāti—goes; hi—indeed.
English translation of verse 6.20.4:
A person who bathes there and gives a ruby in charity flies to the sun planet in an airplane effulgent like the sun.