Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.20.13, 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:

सप्त-सामुद्रकं नाम
तीर्थं यत्र विराजते
तत्र स्नात्वा नरः पापि
पाप-सण्घैः प्रमुच्यते

sapta-sāmudrakaṃ nāma
tīrthaṃ yatra virājate
tatra snātvā naraḥ pāpi
pāpa-saṇghaiḥ pramucyate

sapta-sāmudrakam—Sapta-sāmudraka; nāmanamed; tīrtham—holy place; yatrawhere; virājate—is splendidly manifested; tatra—there; snātvā—bathing; naraḥ—a person; pāpisinful; pāpa-saṇghaiḥ—from many sins; pramucyate—is freed.

English translation of verse 6.20.13:

There also is Sapta-sāmudraka-tīrtha. A sinner who bathes there is freed from a great host of sins.

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