Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.20.11, 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 6.20.11
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
कैलासस्यापि यात्रायां
यत् फलं लभते नृप
तस्माच् छत-गुणं पुण्यं
नीललोहित-दर्शनात्
kailāsasyāpi yātrāyāṃ
yat phalaṃ labhate nṛpa
tasmāc chata-guṇaṃ puṇyaṃ
nīlalohita-darśanāt
kailāsasya—of Mount Kailāsa; api—also; yātrāyām—on pilgrimage; yat—what; phalam—result; labhate—attains; nṛpa—O king; tasmāt—than that; śata—a hundred times; guṇam—multiplied; puṇyam—piety; nīlalohita-darśanāt—by seeing Nīlalohita.
English translation of verse 6.20.11:
O king, by seeing the liṇga of Lord Śiva there one attains a pious result a hundred times greater than the result attained by going on pilgrimage to Mount Kailāsa.