Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 6.21.20, 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 21 (In the Description of the Third Fort, the Glories of Pindaraka-tirtha) of Canto 6 (dvaraka-khanda).
Verse 6.21.20
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
पिण्डारक-स्नानम् ऋते
कथं राज्यं भवेद् इह
अन्ते मोक्शं कथं याति
नरः पाप-युतो ऽपि हि
piṇḍāraka-snānam ṛte
kathaṃ rājyaṃ bhaved iha
ante mokśaṃ kathaṃ yāti
naraḥ pāpa-yuto 'pi hi
piṇḍāraka-snānam—bathing in Piṇḍāraka-tīrtha; ṛte—without; katham—how?; rājyam—a kingdom; bhavet—may be; iha—here; ante—at the end; mokśam— liberation; katham—how?; yāti—attains; naraḥ—a person; pāpa-yutaḥ—sinful; api—even; hi—certainly.
English translation of verse 6.21.20:
Without bathing at Piṇḍāraka-tīrtha, how can one attain a kingdom in this world? How can even a sinner attain liberation?