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).

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?; yātiattains; 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?

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