Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 6.20.16, 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:

साप्त-कोटीनि तीर्थानि
ब्रह्माण्डे यानि कानि च
सर्वाणि तत्र तिश्ठन्ति
सप्त-सामुद्रके नृप

sāpta-koṭīni tīrthāni
brahmāṇḍe yāni kāni ca
sarvāṇi tatra tiśṭhanti
sapta-sāmudrake nṛpa

sāpta-koṭīni—seventy million; tīrthāni—holy places; brahmāṇḍe—in the universe; yāni—which; kāniwhich?; ca—and; sarvāṇi—all; tatra—there; tiśṭhanti—stay; sapta-sāmudrake—at Sapta-sāmudraka; nṛpaO king.

English translation of verse 6.20.16:

O king, all the seventy million holy places of the universe are present at Sapta-sāmudraka-tīrtha.

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