Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.20.10, 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 6.20.10
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
नीललोहित-लिण्गं तु
यत्र सम्पूज्य यत्नतः
ऐश्वर्यम् अतुलं लेभे
रावणो लोक-रावणः
nīlalohita-liṇgaṃ tu
yatra sampūjya yatnataḥ
aiśvaryam atulaṃ lebhe
rāvaṇo loka-rāvaṇaḥ
nīlalohita-liṇgam—the Deity of Lord Śiva; tu—indeed; yatra—where; sampūjya—worshiping; yatnataḥ—carefully; aiśvaryam—opulence; atulam— unequalled; lebhe—attains; rāvaṇaḥ—Rāvaṇa; loka-rāvaṇaḥ—who made the entire world cry out.
English translation of verse 6.20.10:
At this place the demon Rāvaṇa, who made the entire world scream with grief, worshiped the liṇga of Lord Śiva and attained incomparable power and opulence.