Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.20.8, 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 उत्तरे द्वारे
क्शेत्रं स्यान् नैललोहितम्
यत्र साक्शान् महा-देवो
राजते नीललोहितः

tathā vai uttare dvāre
kśetraṃ syān nailalohitam
yatra sākśān mahā-devo
rājate nīlalohitaḥ

tathā—so; vai—indeed; uttare—at the northern; dvāre—gate; kśetram—the place; syān—is; nailalohitam—Nailalohita; yatrawhere; sākśāt—directly; mahā- devaḥ—Lord Śiva; rājate—is splendidly manifested; nīlalohitaḥas Nīlalohita.

English translation of verse 6.20.8:

At the northern gate is Nailalohita-tīrtha, where Lord Śiva is splendidly manifested in his form of Nīlalohita.

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