Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 8.13.59, 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 8 of Chapter 13 (A Thousand Names of Lord Balarama) of Canto 8 (balabhadra-khanda).

Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:

प्रयाग-तीर्थ-राजश् च
सरयूह् सेतु-बन्धनह्
गया-शिरश् च धनदह्
पौलस्त्यह् पुलहाश्रमह्

prayāga-tīrtha-rājaś ca
sarayūh setu-bandhanah
gayā-śiraś ca dhanadah
paulastyah pulahāśramah

He visited Prayāga, the king of holy places (prayāga-tīrtha-rāja), and He also visited the Sarāyu river (sarayū), and Setubandha (setu-bandhana). He touched His head to the holy city of Gayā (gayā-śira). He gives wealth in charity (dhanada). He visited the sage Pulastya (paulastya), and He visted the āśrama of the sage Pulaha (pulahāśrama).

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